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BACHELOR. LIFE
IN THE
The Lonely Road and the Empty
House. the Horse on the
Lawn and the Early Risers.

MY address next summer will be the
Hotel Aston, or the Hotel Bowery, or the
Hotel Something or other" said the man
with the weary look in his eyes as he piled
up his parcels on the seat beside hin in the
wOmen's cabin Of the f~erryboat. The
name Of tho hotel will depend on how brisk
business is on tho curb. ButIW be stabbed
in a hotel for the vacation stretch, you can
bot your goggles. No more camping out
in my pleasant suburban home, with its air
as good az the mountains. shade trees and
inspiring views. of the garden region Of New
Jersey, as the advertisement said when /
bought IT,.
"A suburban house with the family a
hundred miles away is about as cheerful a
pIace fora lonely man TO roost Tin as a marble
mausoleum in a new graveyard; and it's
about as restful as a Broadway Office
building.
Its when you 60 home at night that the
chill of it gets under your kin and a
your bones rattle. The walk from tue sta
ton begins it. or course it's the midnight
train. Who wants TO go home early TO an
empty house with aprons on the chairs and
q sheet over the piano2
Il started on the first night or 70 quite
merrily, swinging along the road al a Lively
pace. Bat when / left the villag ehind
and got out among the cottages my spirits
began 10 go down. | never before realized
how lonely these quiet tr cts are.
The electric lights, about an eighth Of a
mile apart, swung slowly IN the night wind
and made the shadows OF the shrubs on my
neighbOr's lawn dodge ABOUT in a horribly
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N THE MARINE.
One Result Of Jack Gardner's Wav-
ing the Flag From the Sinking
Cumbsrland's Mainmast.

MACON, Mo, Sept. 2o.--To seize a flag
and climb high up on the mainmast Of a
warship that has been riddled with shells
and to wave it defiantly in the face Of a
victorious enemy looks like playing to the
galleries, but it is an act fraught with far
reaching influence just the same" said
Edwin McKee Of this city. Jack Gardner,
sailor on the Cumberland. did that patriotic
stunt after the Merrimac had rammed a
hole in the side Of his vessel big enough
to drive a wagon through, and in conse-
quence Gardner became known round
the world az the man who went down with
his ship rather than surrender.
when the Cumberland struck bottom
however, her masts still lowered above
the water and Jack didn't get wet, unless he
swan ashore.
Gardner and ! were fellow marines on
the Vanderbilt whom that vessel was hunt
ing all over creation for the privateer
Alabama. In our course from Fayal 10
Cape Town we put In at the island of IRt
Helena TO take GOAL. While the barxes
we're filling the bunkers a fisherman hi a
small boat came near and threw out mis-
lines.
He was wearing the uniform Of a nit
states marine. II was somewhat fuzzled
and worn, but there was enough left to
show IL had once been in Uncle sam
service.
a boat was lowered and several ~ M
rowed out to the lone fisherman.
Hello, mattel said the officer in charge.
Hello yourself said the fisherman' az
he cast out his line.
20 'long?" ' "
mo: this suits me-
Your country needs you
This Is my country
Evidently the troubles of his native land
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disauieting way. ] told myself I'd OVID a
pistol the next night.
But it was worse when I got 10 my own
house. The nearest houses looked as II
everyone was dead in them. The two staid
respectable naples that grow in my lawn
looked Just like weeping willows in the
gloom.
The carriage block suggested Pc a grave
stone. When | looked up at the house, the
reflection in the window of my bedroom OF
an arc light about a block away was for all
the world like a white face peering u at
me. tell you my hand shook when | put
the latchkey in the door.
However, 1 soon grew accustomed TO
the outside conditions. l kept from looking
at the black, staring window panes, and
ignored the existence Of the trees and the
stepping stone. But what I never got over
was the c~reepiness Of the first five minutes
alone in that empty house.
"A misty smell developed in a day or
two and a line OF two Of poetry that ! once
heard an elocutionist get OF at a church
show came into my head every night. It's
something about the smell that steals from
n winding sheet when a mummy Is I'M
rolled l couldn't forget IL.
And then I had to light up. Did you
ever think when you struck a match in the
dark Of the things you might see in the dome
of light you made? Well, | thought OF tina,
every night as / struck my match and
CROPPED for the gas jet.
The light falling on the newell post gave
me a start and the cold sheen of the hal
mirror made my flesh creep. Once wher
l broke a match | had to hold myself in &c
keep from opening the door and making q
dash for the open. / never felt at ease
until I had every window open.
aThen 1 seemed comparatively ear &c
the rest Of the living world. l knew thai
il | let out a good lusty yell some n would
arrive at least in time to save my corpss
before Old Nick could get on with IL.
Il would rather sleep in a Mills hote
than put in another two months Of sumInei
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Only Woman Mint Grow er

NLcs correspondence IRdidHapoI N''
Miss Mary Clark, an orphan. Of Gallon ~
county, Is the only woman IN the "'f't IT,.
make a success In growing pepperm'ui 'L
the mark 81. n business heretofore Cpu'r..'i
exclusively by men. She has Iupr"'c'
upon the methods employed by m" 'r'i
eran mint growers In several instauo' 'I,,
her eighty acre farm IL one Of the bee. '.''
producers In the world. .
The harvest Of the mint crop, VIII - .
grown exclusively in the United sat W
southern. Michigan, northern Indiana I'u,
10 n single county In New York. r. now "n B"
this locality.
With most growers the harvest ,".u"- !,
September. but having ascPrtain"l 'wi.
with a falling mercury the mint u"lt'j"'
starts for the roots Of N" plant. N'~- IT,.
harvests her mint In time ~ Cal,r t
menthOl there IL in the plant. -elr"''m. 'n'
b. test spell Of weather she san u'r .'
The result Is that she produces n hl'n'' '''"
OF crop and more 81 II 10 the a"rr l''. .'
neiRhbOrH.
Miss Clark has herself cut and raL"'
acres. OF nay, MIXED ten COWS nI-' '
morning. besides looking after her N'f'. .
chickens and horses. She lives
widowed mother, there being n" "'
on the farm except In the summsr ,
when she employs help to take rar' ' '"'
peppermint.
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grass that they nave cut and cured and
then store it away in mows over their bed
rooms.
The old. women Of the village are often
the wood carriers. One little Old creature,
who said hat she was past 20. limpe1 slowly
end painfully across a snow covered hillside
Of the Black Forest, carrying on her head
a big bundle Of faggots hat she had col
leCted in the nearby woods.
One of her feet had been frozen and
she had to help herself along with a stick.
She was glad, she said, to get even this
cherries work, for otherwise in winter she
might starve to death. As IL was, those for
whom she worked ave her something 60
eat and a place in the stable to sleep.
The German woman not only raises most
Of the farm products but she also markets
them. She is the outdoor worker of the
nation. Makes her healthy, the German
says, and American wome1 looking for
the secret OF health and good looks have
been recommended to make the plan a
study.
After she has raised her crop she gets up
in the morning before daybreak and starts
to market in order that she may secure a
favorable stand. When she has sold out she
hangs her big baskets on the side of a wagon
and when the other women of the same
neighborhood rave finished their sales she
starts for home.
One hayrack Of a wagon carries all the
market women of a n~eighbOrhood, for it
would be too muc for each farmer to bring
his wife. By common consent one man
has the job Of looking after all and his
charges generally number from fifteen to
thirty ha~usfraus.
Health is hardly the only consideration
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that drives the women to the fields. An
aged couple that had reached the slippered
and Preside time of life were laboriously
cultivating their few rods OF ancestral land
in the Rhine valley; the old man was clinging
nervously to the plough handles and the
faithful wife guiding the cows as slowly
as possible along the burrows.
They had been taking turns about at
row team and plough. Worn out, they
stopped to rest.
We must work or become a public
charge" said the old woman. ITS not u
matter Of choice. Our older sons have
gone to the city or the factory, where they
can get more remunerative employment,
and the youngest has been drafted for the
army. Yes, the army has put the German
woman to work in the field"
The COW il the wom8n's best ally in
burden bearing. The faithful animal is not
much of a milk or butter producer, for she
is too busy drawing carts and ploughs.
An English traveller was surprised to
see two girls drawing a plough not far
from Heidelberg. He spoke to the father,
who was bossing the job, and was still
further surprised that he should resent
any inquiries as TO the way Of farming.
The COW had died and he didn't w money
enough TO buy another, the girls were
strong and healthy, he had cared for them
and he did not. see any reason why they
should not draw the plough until he could
get a COW TO do the work.
In France as in Germany the women
do most OF the outdoor work n have the
monopoly on healthful exercise. What
a French peasant woman sometimes be-
comes Millet told for all time upon his
CanVaSpS.
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The original European express appears
TO vezbeen-A woman. She began the
carrying businesses soon aS her bead and
neck were stsaneI enough to Bsar the burden
that wSs Imposed and she has had a steady
iob ever stnne. In this country capital
istie- corporations have m~onopolized the
field,
The Breton girl for INSTANCE doesn't
drive around in a wagon beautifully let
|. tered and adorned with rural views to
deliver milk. She takes one II the great
cans on her head and goes from door to
door, keeps tally OF her sales oil a notched
stick and then goes back home to do a
days WORK.
The water carriers burden is limited only
by the weight Of the filled brass or earthen
jar ON Net head. If she has a good many
customers she takes the jar of her bead,
gets another one like it and peddles twice
rs much from a yoke over her shoulders.
The Istrian peasant woman gathers
all the fruit and vegetation that her place
along the shores of the Adriatic can produce
and starts with it for the Trieste market.
She carries it on her read if she is poor;
but il she is very wealthy she has a donkey
of a size TO be almost entirely concealed
ny lNC mar VI oAh u hOipCA NNNBNo
along behind with baskets in which to
make the display in the city.
When the sales have all been mad the
helper piles all the baskets, twenty or thirty
of them perhaps, on her head and goes
down to the wharves where vessels are IN
loading and loading to look for employment.
She gets work carrying coal or something
| else easy that keeps her busy until sun
down. Then she loads up her pile Of baskets
and walks five or six miles out into the
country.
The Italian woman has in many parts Of
the country let her basket slip down on her
back. An old r haired burden bearer
, climbing along the narrow lanes Of the
vineyard country around Lake Maggiore
said that she was glad to stop a minute to
pose for her photograph il she didn't have
to take Off the basket under which she was
bending.
She might not get it back on securely
again, she explained, for it was 80 heavy.
She had all the shopping for a whole neigh
borhood in that precious bundle.
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The American woman, whether working
for a living or merely taking a p~hilanthropic
interest in the betterment Of her sex, might
find consolation, if there IN feminine solacG
in comparisons, by contrasting the condi-
ton of the working women here with thao
Of her sisters in Europe. 4.
women's work has long been fruitful Of
discussion in. Germany and France. and
now IL has become a Continental question
and has produced a deluge of pamphlets
Ia many tongues. None Of this army OF
reformers, however, has gone 80 far as to
advocate womAn's abandonment of the
field Of labor; they are merely in favor OF
reforming her hours and methods.
In all European countries woman is en-
xaRed in the most laboTious occupations.
She " the general farm hand all over the
Continent, she plants the seeds and gathers
the crop, and in parts Of Germany she il
both plough horse and cart horse. She
pushes a broom and a wheelbarrow as a
street cleaner in Berlin and Munich and
in the latter city adds to these duties that OF
track sweeper and switchman for the street
RAILWAYS. She serves as a railway crossing
guard and Is frequently a section hand or
station porter working in competition With
men.
She breaks stones for highways in south
ern Europe, takes her turn at pushing heavily
laden canal boats in Holland. She works
in the mines Of Belgium digging coal and
ore and loading them upon cars and in
Bavaria she Is stone crusher and ho0 car
rier.
II she has any leisure between times,
somebody manages TO find her something
to do. In fact, the European woman is so
busy that she has scarcely opportunity
for advanced ideas and that seems 10 be
the reason that now man has risen to reform
her work.
That her long hours Of toll and the in
sufficient nourishment hat her poor pay
furnishes rob her of the charm and graces
OF ~soIaanhccd and induce great physical
suffering is admitted. But the most de-
plorabIe fact OF all to the military states
man is that such conditions mean a lack OF
good fighting men to fill the ranks Of the
standing armies-a much weightier matter
than the mere sympathetic fact hat she
IL a beast OF burden
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we're the least thing in his thoughts, He
looked 20 supremacy comfortable and care
free hat II seemed a hopeless task to Interest
him in a strife. Then up spoke n of the
sailors:
-'Gardner's with us
The fisherman became alert.
Jack Gardner OF the Cumberland? he
exclaimed.
Aye
Hes or there with YOU fellers?
-'You bet
Call him up
The sailor hallooed for Gardner, who
came 10 the rail.
ship ahoy, old jack cried tho fisher
man.
Hello, Bill returned the man % VarA-
man.
They didn't get YEP
Not to hurt
The fisherman turned to us
MATES. last I saw Of old Jack he was ny
there in the rigging going down vii, HI,
flag flying. Lord Who'd "a thought ~
seein' him this side Of tn devil again. tome
up clost NO can jump in. Damn the 'l-hln
line and fishesl I'm goin' back with ] n'le
Sammy"
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"A lire for posing just that short time
she said, with a ssmblancs Of a smile on her
tired old face. why, I don't make that
much in a eek's work.
Further down on the great dusty plains
Of Lombardy a little tired woman was tug
ging along harnessed to a cart in which
was her baby and behind, pushing as hard
as she could, was a little girl. She had
travelled from sunrise and it was long past
noon; she had delivered almost everything
except a piece Of iron for a winepress, and
as soon as she got nd OF that she was going
to hurry home to do some washing hat
she had picked up on the way. Her long
days work would then pay her almost
20 cents.
A familiar sight on the rural highways
Of Germany is the sturdy women trudging
along with great baskets that always seem
to be bullying with things. Ore of these
women stopped one morning just after
she had left Freiburg to take an inventory
Of her burden.
There was the family washing of Frau
Haas thai was to be left at the first house
some ribbons for the frauleins further
along, leather for the cobbler in the second
village, a bit OF a toy for Hans's sick baby
iron for the blacksmith FIVE miles further
on, wrenches for the brewer, medicine for
a COW, some books for the priest and an
altar piece for the parish church. She
didn't see why all this would not bring heI
10 cents, especial as she had ~ far to
walk.
Women do the baking in rural southern
Germany and they deliver their bread from
little hand carts which they push for miles
in all weathers. The girls carry in from
the fields in great bundles on their heads the
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minutes Until the coachman got Jack from
the station and gave him a taste Of real
whip.
II didn't want to go back to bed when the
show was over. l had a good laugh to be-
gin the day. You see | don't like the De
Brounes
But no more bachelor life in a rural
house for me. It's true there's no place
like home-no place so cold and comfortless
when a mans all alone in it,"
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CHAPTER Xl.

Tho footman, having brought in The
tea equipage had retired, and though
the room was as superbly decorated
and furnished as the drawing-room at
the Court. 1t seemed almost as homely
and simple as the little parlor at
Cliff Cottage.
Listening TO Lord Ferndale's cheer
full, unaffected talk, Norah thought
wistfully how much nicer it would De
IL her father were little less stately
and formal.
You refused TO sing for us the
other night. Lady Norah.s
But | viii sing now"
He was going to follow her and
open the piano for her. but Lady Fern
dale motoned to him to remain where
he was, and Norah. without trace OF
self-consciousness and with only the
desire to please these two loving
souls who had made so much Of her.
sat down and sang the first thing tina
came into her head.
It is not at all probable that Norah
would have made a fortune on the
operate stage, but she had sweet
voice that, though Il had been care
FULLY trained. was as natural as n
birds and as it filled the room, softly
lighted by the roseshaded candies.
Lord Ferndale looked at his wife with
mixture of surprise and admiration.
What a dear. clever girl she Is, 2
murmured Lady Ferndsle,
"A rose in June," quoted Lord Fern
dale. in a low voice. III anything can
melt Arrowdale's heart, she willr"
You sing very beautifully. Lady
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invitation and leave Santleigh? How
quickly Lady Ferndaie had taken to
him? Yes, he was a gentleman,
though he might only be an artist,
poor and unknown If he left SAINT
leigh she would, perhaps, never see
him again, The thought seemed to
drive all the happiness out of her
heart, and she leaned back and drew
the shawl round her as if the night
had suddenly become cold.
The carriage had reached the top of
the hill and was going down on the
other side, and she bent forward to
look at the gate upon which Cyril
Burne had been sitting, when she saw
something white fit from tree spd
cross the road. 1t was an owl and
its screech startled her little.
1t seemed to have startled the hors-
es a great deal, for she felt the car
riage swerye, come to standstiI for
second, then rush forward so sharp
ly as to jerk her on to the front seat.
With smile she picked herself up,
but the smile vanished and vague
alarm fell upon her as she saw the
hedges and trees flying past the win
dow at racing pace.
Has any one ever yet been able to
describe all the phases by which an
accident progresses to the final ca
tastrophe?
Norah knew and realized nothing
more until she experienced a jar, as
if the wheels had caught upon some
thing, and felt the carriage sway and
fall over; but as she fell with it she
was conscious of hearing, amid the
stamping and snorting of the fright
ened horses and the voice of the
coachman, the sound of another voice.
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Norah,7 he said. yen must give us
one or two more; remember, It is a
treat TO u.s."
Il will sing as long as you like, -
said Norah, simply, and she sang
again Then Lady Ferndaie found a
duet, and discovered, with delight,
that Cheir two voices blended together
perfectly
"Oh, my dear, if you only belonged
to mel" she exclaimed inyolur tarily,
with q sigh, as she stopped to kiss
her.
Was il no wonder that Norah's eyes
grew moist with tears OF happiness
and gratitude or that when the foot
man announced that the carriage
was waiting she should start with dis
may?
Lord Ferndale went out of the room
and returned, bearing in his own
hand a decanter Of wine and insisted
upon Norahs' drinking a glass.
Better obey, dear" said Lady Fern
dale smilingly, 'he is a dreadfui
tyrant, and fearfully obstinate"
When Norah had got her things on
and Lady Ferndale had wrapped the
soft shawl round her, making me
into parcel post bundle" as Norah
laughingly declared, a maid came for
ward in her bonnet and cloak.
'I'H send her with you, dear" said
Lady Ferndale, but Norah showed
that she could be as obstinate as Lord
Ferndale, and pointblank refused the
escort.
Why, what could happen to me in
close carriage between here and the
Court, dear Lady Ferndale?" she said.
Please don't send her! shall not
like to come agan if l give you so
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much trouble. You wouldn't send
her if If were your daughter" she
added shyly.
'Norah's right" exclaimed Lady
Ferndale. But, mind, We take you
at your word, and you are just 70
come to US as If you were our daugh-
ter. That's bargain, my child"
I'm witness to it." said Lord Fern
dale.
They both went to the carriage aid
Lady Ferndale seemed. as she held
her in her arms and Kissed her. as il
she could scarcely bring herself to
part with her, and the last Norah saw
of them they were standing arm-in-
arm on the steps waving their hands
at her.
Norah looked out at the night-tha
moon was rising, great yellow ORC
above the hilltops-her whole being
thrilling like some sensitive musical
instrument, her heart melting under
the influence of the lovable couple she
had left. For time she leaned back
in the luxurious carriage and recalled
their kindness to her and forgot all
else; but suddenly, almost with a
shock, she found that her thoughts
had strayed and that they wandered
to some one else, and she found her
self thinking of Cyril Burne.
1t seemed ungrateful to bestow a
single thought upon any one but these
two, and she tried to drive him from
her mind, but looking out of the win
dow she saw that they were ascend
ing the hill on the other side of which
Lady Ferndale had stopped to
speak to him, and back he came
again.
Would he accept Lady Ferndale's
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purposes has dropped his family
name of Shelton, and her emily son,
.Chambre William Penn Curzon, Is
but two removed from the peerage.
In addition Miss Jeffreys was an in
innate friend and was related by
marriage to the late Lady Curzon.
formerly Miss Daisy Letter She is
said to be an elegant dresser Her
own costumes are original and per
sonal. In every line. in perfect
finish of the smallest detail, they ex-
press the artist herself Ellis
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A most Interesting stage figure Is
Miss Jeffreys who is appearing with
William II. Crane in She Stops to
Conquer. for in addition TO her artistic
attachments which are well known.
she Is something of social quantity
in England. She is q sister-in-law
of Earl Howe, and by marriage was
related TO the late Lord Randolph
Churchill and the dowager duchess
of Roxburg. Miss Jeffreys. in the
privacy of the home circle. is the wife
of Herbert Sheath. who for stage