Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-26

gentiemanly he had been and how censid-
erates You were with me only by accf-
dent. and l would not nike advantage Of
the accident She ftpf0ed TO the head
Of the stairs and listened No sound Her
father and mother were already In bed and
doubtless asleep.
Another wavering moment and she went
to her ROOM found u ssft. white shawl 60
throw over her shoulders. and then stole
down the hack way into the niEht-the
throbbing April night, where young Jim.
trembling with eagerness stood amid the
croc,ises.
Now the age-oid drama Of two men and a
maiden. If played In the madness of the
city. may escape all notice until the culmi-
nation brings It's short,hved wonder but n
a little pocket of hills It is vastly different.
The play goes on before hundred specta-
tors, all eager to note the slightest fiutter
OF heart or eyelid, and every idle gathering
in store or shop or horseshed. like the
chorus of the old drama. discusses and coE1-
ments and speculates
Many of the whispered tales of Kari and
Jim and Rose came surprisingly near the
1t, but. near or remote. the whispering never
ceased. At every gathering one was sure
to hear the conclusions of the old. who
viewed the play effectively, the coTn-
ments of the middle-aged. who looked upon
it not coldiy. but curiousiy; and the excla-
nations of the young, who philosophical
not at all. but speculated with eagerness.
Thus the chorus droned on in the inter-
1udes.
The Bottom church. great square block
of building. stands alone. full ten rods
from the store on one side and the school
house on the other Along the road on
spiked to the tops of posts, to be used for
hitchfng places. On fair Sunday these
rails are crowded from end to end with
horses and rigs OF every description, some
of them there after journey OF six and
even eight miles. 1t is always a thrilling
experience to the stranger In the valley to
come suddenly. amid the perfect silence of
a Sabbath around the curve of the road
upon these two long rows of Eotionless
horses, with no other hint of human life in
the vicinity
Country worshipers come early to church
on fair mornings, and they delight to gather
in knots, the men about the horses, and the
women in the veStibule. to talk until the ar
rival of the preacher On the 30th of April,
the Sunday after Jim had thrown the pine
cone, the group was especially large. Its
nucleus and oracle was Amos Harding, who
was seated sidewise on wagon seat, his
feet roosting precariously on one of the
wheels.
Say. that drove of old hogs there by the
meetin' house looks hansum. now don't it?'
he was running on garrulously. "Runnin'
wild right in the street-by Moses, wonder
what they'd say up to Connecticut? Ever
think of it. the name of this state Is Penn
sylvania. and there amt a tarnal pig-pen
once told me the rule for findin latitude
in the United States? You multiply the
number of hogs running loose on
a mile of road by the average
number of rods of rail fence to the
square mile of land and you'll have the dis
tanee in miles from the Connecticut river,
countin' north and south. He, he, he! Bet
ter rule than that. though: You multiply
the average number Of pints of paint to
house In any region by the number OF
square inches in the average front yard,
and if you're careful of your fractions
you'll get the exact distance in rods to
the nearest point on the Gulf Of Mexico.
Fails in Center county, though; all rules do.
Wy we're miles north of the paint line and
miles north of the average hog line, but in
spite of all that If you apply AIRY one of
them rules 1t lands us right of to the tip
END o. Florida"
CTo be continued tomorrow)