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velvety black, OF such spange of gold and gilt
ter, she thought she had never seen; she GER
tanly had not-from the deck of barge, or with
a barges mate beside her.
There's seat here" said the mate 'if you're
set on staying up, miss"
! He called her "miss" and his voice was gruff-
er than the slippers, unnaturaly so, but Molly
| liked IL, and to go down into the cabin again
after once seeing the stars-no. And Molly was
always self-willed.
You're sure sha'n't be in the wayG" she
said.
The mate laughed.
BLESS you, miss'-he seemed rather fond Of
the word-"We're doing nothing"
| "Why you're at anchor" cried Molly.
eyes, miss; couldn't get her in in time.
That's Brettingley over yonder'-he pointed as
il everything was visible. eve land half our
cargo there tomorrow. Stone for the new har-
bor."
Molly sat down. The mate leaned against
something near, but she couldn't see him or any
thing distinctly; overhead twinklng glory, all
around the dark.
''Do you mind my ppe?" asked the mate.
Glove it" Molly checked herself just in
time. mo, indeed, thank you"
you'll be cold, miss"
"No, my jerseys very thick"
She found something put about her shoulders
rough pilot jacket
BEST be little careful; it's bit fresh. That
too heavy, miss!
She couldn't possibly have told She knew
the touch of the square mans sleeve against her
cheek and throat gave her very pleasant thrill.
Good thing we struck you, miss" said the
mate again presently.
eyes, indeed she said fervently. "I don't
know what should have done"
'No" The glow from the mates pipe died
downNa if for long breath he ceased to draw
at it. There's strange Providence behind
things" he remarked again, after awhile. His
voice lost its gruffness moment, and Molly
started and stared, but she could see nothing,
only the pipe-aglow. 1t really was very dark
you're not much hand at boat miss, l ex-
pect?" resumed the mate.
"Oh, but l am" cried Molly, in hot self-de-
fense. ut was only my dreadful heedlessness.
got thinking" She stopped. She turned
her face to watch the stars.
"I get thinking, too," remarked the mate,
"when look up there" Evidently he could see
her better than she could him. "Stars do give
one something to think about, don't they?'
81 wasn't thinking of the stars" said Molly.
$50, l suppose you wouldn't, miss" remarked
the mate obviously
Molly began to dislike that "miss"
81 was thinking of friend of mine" she
said suddenly.
The mate was silent.
"She is in trouble-I am very fond of her"
said Molly. ut makes it just like my own trou-
BILE, you know"
T, 1t was really very dark. Molly thought the
mate moved; she couldn't be quite sure "Your
pipe is out" she said.
A sudden glow reassured her. She liked that
light, but she was glad there was no other She
could only have talked in the dark. In the dark
all coats are gray, and the mate of the Alec
Davey seemed very much like other men.
81 have friend in trouble, too," said the
mate grufhy after awhile.
Molly started.
you're cold, miss?" said the mate.
ooh, no, indeed"
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He finds to his bitter modification, that he has
to start at the bottom of the ladder, while some
fellow who hasn't had any education to speak Of,
but who has worked at the trade for five or six
years, gets in ahead of him. This other fellow
is just his own age but he makes three or four
times as much money as he does.
He was probably put out to work as soon as
he finished the grammar school, and started out
as an office boy at about three dollars week.
AS this meagre salary had to be turned in at
home every week, he soon got restive, and decid-
ed that he had to be making more money, if lie
expected to have anything for himself.
His unfailing industry and his strict honesty
soon won him promotion and "raise," which
last was the more important of the two. By the
time he is Twenty-Five at the time the college
graduate comes to work there, he is occupying a
position of trust, with nice, fat salary attached
to it. He is not only able to support his wild
owed mother and his sisters, but he is even think
ing of bringing wife home.
The college graduate hates the thought that this
Ignorant buffoon," as he mentally terms him,
should be in position to give him orders More
over, it is the height of injustice that this
ture should be given preference over him.
After bit, however they get better acquaint.
ed, and the college man begins to see that his first
estimate of the other man was wrong.
To his amazement, he discovers that he is not
unread He finds out that this Ignorant buff
foon" has read all sorts of deep books in science
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nothing to do with the town of Troy, but comes
from the French "octroi," which is our word
authority" in another form, and Troy weight
is only the authorized weight. The Jerusalem
artichoke is sunhower and not an artichoke at
all, though it is called from somewhat sim
liar flavor; and it has no connection with the
sacred city, but the first part is corruption OF
the Italian ,sirasole," which means that it turns
its flowers to the sun.
Place names have been specially affected
"Bridgwater' the name of an English town.
sounds all right, and the more so because the
town boasts the only bridge within some miles
whereby one can cross the river PaTett; but
old charters reveal the fact that the place was
originally "Burh de Walter" the borough Of
Walter, who may have fancied himself secure
Of at least a geographical Immortality, but the
Somerset desire for words with an apparent
meaning has robbed him even of that. The riv-
sr Dart in its lower reaches is not at all .
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darting stream, and it never was; it only en-
bodies an old Celtic name for water, which we
have in Douro and Dore and also in. Derwent,
Darent and Trent. Another Celtic word for
water has been more fortunate, and survives in
whisky" with changed meaning, but with
nearly its original form; geographically hard
er fate has beset it, and in many DISCUSSES it
has made trial of all the vowsls with perfect
impartiality. Thus it appears in the river Ave
and Administer, the Esk and the Exc, the Usk
and Uxbridge while Oxford is not the ford of
the oxen, but simply whsky-ford, or Waterford
in another form. The remaining vowel is rep
resented at Phoenix Park in Dublin where a
phoenix rising from the ashes ''like tall bully,
lifts its head and lies" for in spite of the sculp
tured emblem, the phoenix has nothing to do
with the park, which derives its name from
"fne water" that there wells up.
Proverbs have suffered from the same ineradi-
cable tendency of the human mind Nine tail
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The Making Of Language

ors make man" was originally no libel on the
sartorial artist; but in the form of Mine teers
mark man" it furnished practical rule for
those whose melancholy Office it was to toll for
the dead, and who We're required to ring peal
of nine strokes for a man, six for woman and
three for child. A handsaw is the last article
which one seems liable to confuse with a hawk,
yet an old proverb lauds the man who can tell
hawk from handsaw'; but here the handsaw
was originally the heronshaw, or young heron,
which the hawk resembled,
A similar desire to give a meaning to what
had become meaningless is responsible for the
famous story of Wilmington and his cat. He
did make fortune by cats, but not by sending
them to eatless parts which were infested by
mice. A cat was originally barge, and the
commercial part of Plymouth Sound is still
known as the Catwater. Wilmington was a
wharfnger who, by trading with many cats or
barges, amassed fortune and became Lord
Mayor.
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! Of course, if the young man goes to college
situated in the same town as his home, and con-
tinues to live at home, then the case is altered.
His parents keep an eye on him, and guard
him against undesirable associations.
But even if the young man does live at home,
and is in this way kept from falling in with a
fast set, he finds his college career a detrment
to him in other ways. He probably studies a
good many things which, although they may be
of value as far as general culture is concerned, are
of absolutely no use to him when he comes to
earn his own living. 1t may be all very well to
know that Rome was founded in 753 B. c., and
it may be very improving to read Paradise LOST
but neither the date nor the poem will help him
to get himself dinner
When he graduates he will be about twenty-five.
He knows that other young men of that age are
making pretty good salaries, and he thinks that
as he has degree and diploma he ought to get
a position right away that will yield him just as
much as these uneducated fellows are getting, if
not more.
So armed with his diploma, he starts out to
hunt job. He soon finds that he might just as
well have saved himself the trouble of carrying
it, for instead of being help to him, it really
operates against him.
"Oh, l see A college graduate. Then Won
haven't had any practical experience along this
line of work? Well, we want somebody who has
had experience. Good morning" And he IS
bowed out of the office.
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at the prospect and it vexed her to know how
entirely IL was her own fault. She had been
dreaming instead Of needing. CAS- if you can
wander about on the sea as you can in mead.
owl" thought Molly, savage with herself. Her
mother was forever telling her that her fits Of
abstraction would get her into trouble.
Molly sighed. Even at this very moment, face
to face with disaereeable little adventure, her
thoughts were actually wandering again 10 last
June in town and hower.filled balconies, and
the melody of an unforgetable waltz.
She shook herself together with an angry ex
clamation.
ct really ought to be ashamed Of myself" she
said aloud, drifting out to sea like this, simply
because | must always be thinking of-of-"
But her thoughts closed over his name, and
she bent to the oars again with aimless energy
awhile, then gave it up altogether.
It grew very dark, very cold, very strange.
Even her little boat, the Nancy Lee, seemed to
miliarity.
81 suppose / ought to go on shouting" thought
Molly. "Its certainly no use flying signal"
Time passed 1t seemed to the girl whole
night had gone before the stars were showing
and she thought she must have drifted at least
to France when sudden shout made her almost
leap into the water.
Molly cried out in an ecstasy of relief It
upon her so near, she felt she must have been
asleep not to perceive that before her was
great black mass
A red light swung into view mans height
above the water and another tiny light came
and went in red glow somewhere above her
head
Molly cried out in an ecstacy of relief. 1t
was a boat-it was a man! Behold his blessed
blessed pipe
"What are ye?" came the hail.
"a row-boat."
''Who aboard?"
"Only myself Molly Winton. can't get in"
She thought she heard chuckle. There was
a sound of scrambng and the flap of rope,
then the stroke of oars In another moment
boat shot alongside the Nancy Lee, and rough,
large hand caught the rowlocks. Molly's adven-
ture was over.
Only it was not over. Within the next five
minutes Molly was deciding the drift in the open
boat was only the first half of pit. She was
aboard the barge Alec Davey, from Newport to
London, carrying something that kept her very
low in the water, and too clean for coal-granite,
perhaps.
Molly was in the shippers cabin. The skip
per seemed very, very nice man. She thought
of him gratefully. He had brought her down
to the cabin at once listened to her explana-
tions and fearful thanks with benign grin half
hidden in his grlzzled beard, then abandoned to
her his bunk-there it was against the wall
and even his tea.
He was having tea for supper seemingly
Molly thought the japanned teapot simmering on
an awful little stove quite piteous sight. The
skipper inspired confidence, and Molly was quite
sure she would be taken care of, but, oh, dear,
the master of the Alec Davy was man of ap-
pallingly few words and alarmngly prompt ac-
ton!
II
Molly found herself shut in, with the freedom
of the little cabin and no hearing granted her
faltering protests that she would really, really
rather stay deck before she could quite realize
she had been rescued.
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- reused herself and caught firmly Al
l her oars. She was not going TO be
leve anything so dreadful and impos
sible.
Old Musgrove, the boatman, had warned her
OF tricky currents, and he'd shouted some
tning after her as she pulled off, jerking his
thumb over his shoulder north'ard. But Molly
was as much at home in a row-boat as in a rock
ing-chair.
Little she had bothered her pretty head about
the currents or those little wisps of suphur-hued
clouds trailing over the tops of the church stee-
pies. But she ought to have donei She began
70 tell herself 80 with rather white lips and a
knocking of her heart against her dark-bue ier-
sey. She pulled strongly all the same. keen;nO
the truth at bay. But shore seemed miles
away, and worse than that, IL was utterly unfa.
miliar
The long white frontage of Easteirh Town
mad vanished, and out of the north, where the
little yellow wisps had lain, was coming stiff.
lsh breeze, beating her back two boat lengths
for every one she drew
molly pulled like young Amazon She shout.
ed and searched the shore for friendly craft.
but by some strange chance she seemed all at
once alone upon the sea-
Oh, it's ridiculous" she said to herself.
These currents can't go on forever. I must
pull clearl"
But there was no pulling away from that head
wind, strengthening with the sunset She was
being carried out to sea. Exhausted she paused
and turning her eyes anxiously round, caught a
last stare from the red sun as he dropped sud
denly from behind the pinkish veil and was
swallowed by the waves
Now" thought Molly, really frightened. "it
will be dark in few minutes Well, it's one
tremendous mercy mother went to town TODAY
The hotel people will think I've landed some
where else. Probably shall die of exposure or
be captured by French poachers."
Molly remembered the gunboat that was some
where about watching for them. If only it would
come her wayl
She searched the sea. No gunboat, no any
thing as far as her keen, but unframed ewes
could help her. 1t was September a moonless
evening, and twilight came on fast. The great
waves began to grow unfamiliar in the dusk
and to swell ominously The tide, however, was
setting shorewards, and Molly would not give
up.
She rowed for dear life and the stiffsh little
breeze blew her back like cockleshell! Molly
knew enough of winds and waves to recognize
just the point when they begin to laugh at you
"Oh, very WE'LL" she said, with fine dash of
bravado. "It's use paralyzing myself. L
suppose nothing can happen to me. may knock
up against France or the Channel Islands, or a
lighthouse, or tramp or fishing -boat-that's
all'
As she ran down this scale of opportunities,
Molly rested on her oars and for all her -four
ish she caught her breath, noting how dark it
had grown and that the shore line had vanished
completely.
A night in an open boatl She did not thrill
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wants to make money, and nothing counts ex-
cept money.
You don't have to have education in order
to make money. 1t may help some, but you can
very easily get along without it. An education
is an establishment, luxury like dress suit
or an opera hat. You can, general rule, get
along without the dress suit and the opera hat;
you can also get along without the education.
But, somehow, you have more respect for your
self if you are not quite absolutely ignorant, and
so every young man, more or less, tries to keep
himself up on current topics at least
The amount of good reading he does, however,
depends upon how much ambition he has. But
every young man knows that it is possible to
follow the only sensible career for young man
of today, and yet at the same time to be edu-
Gated.
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buy him, when it struck her the cabin did not
smell of smoke at all, and her rescuer had no
pipe between his lips!
/. There was another man on board them Of
course, on barge. Two men and a boy al
ways. This reflection kept Molly tremblingly
quiet for another spell, then at any risk-at risk
even of encountering the second man, she pulled
open the little door, stumbled forward on to the
companionway, and so on deck.
Oh, how glorious the breeze was now! She
looked round. 1t was very dark For all she
could see, the deck was deserted No; great
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very much indeed, and that she had better go
down again.
II suppose it's against regulations?" she ven
tured.
"The shippers turned in" said voice at last,
coming from somewhere between peaked cap
drawn very low and a coat collar turned very
high "This is my watch-Pm the mate Stay
where you like, miss; you're welcome.2
cts very dark night, isn't it?" said Molly.
Dark? Why look at the stars" said the
mate.
Molly looked and was overawed. Anything so
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self TO reckon with in the first instance, and, a
good second, comes the commercial side of the
question: a matter of moment nowadays, when
success in trade is a nations first desire, Many
onslaughts have been made ''just, subtle, and
mighty opium" as De Quincy had it. In 1889
il even caused the unsheathing of the sword by
the Flowery Land and England It was in this
wise. AS far back as 1896 the Chinese Govern.
ment deemed it good to forbid the importation
of the drug, which since 1893 had been gov
ernment monopoly in> India, and to this end it
issued proclamations galore. These, however,
had little effect, for the local official could not
resist the touch of the seductive coin Then,
fortythree years later, the Emperor's advisers
decided to enforce the long-wnked-at law and
gave evidence Of their decision by coR6seating
and burning all the opium in Canton. The re
suit was complaint to Great Britain, an as
sertion of the rights of her traders, demand
for an indemnity, and, finally, an appeal 10 the
Cod Of Battles who turned his back on the
would-be reformers Since then China has had
TO admit opium, and India continues TO make
some nine millions year out Of 1t.
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and philosophy; that he is well grounded in his
tory and literature, and that he can converse up
on current topics with an intelligence and grasp
of the subject that is revelation to the college
bred man.
How could he have worked himself up like this
and educated himself at the same time? the col
lege man asks himself, and he is forced to ac-
knowledge that this other fellow knows almost
| as much as he does. OF course, he does not know
Latin and Greek, but, then, dead languages are
not at all necessary to culture in these enlighten
ed days.
He has read deeply and well, confning himself
to standard works only, and has so succeeded in
educating himself that he would show up to ad-
| vantage anywhere.
THE SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE
! His parents were too poor to yield to their
belief that he would be President some day, and
so, instead of educating him so that he could live
in the White House, they put him out to work
| Stern necessity taught him to be industrious,
and later the instructor taught him to be
ambitious. He was ambitious not only to be
rich, but also to have some education Both the
money and the education were impossibilities un-
less he worked for them himself, so he got at it,
and stuck at it, and now, at twenty-five, he is
well on the way towards having both.
His parents had chosen the only sensible career
for him. the only career young man can choose
in the twentieth century. Nowadays everybody
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She sat uneasily As her chilled limbs recov-
cred warmth she began to feel the cabin more
and more uncomfortable II was very cean-oh,
indeed, IL was, and she was most grateful to the
delightful skipper. She had even tasted some
Of the over.brewed tea and nibbled piece of
bread, but she felt she must 90 out into the air.
She clssped her hands in fervency of hope
that the skipper's feelings wouldn't be hurt, and
began 10 imagine the magnificent pipe she would
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churches?
That there is bird living in Brazil which has
two sharp claws on each wing and pointed
horn upon its head!
That the King of Portugal has more valuable
crown than any other monarch?
That the soldiers salute first used in
Prussia?
That most fowls have only four toes, but Dork-
ing fowls generally have five?
That Robinson Crusoe' was the first novel
with pictures ever published in England?
That humming-birds are only found in Amer
lea?
That the longest bridge in the world is the
Lion Bridge, in Gilman 1t is more than five
miles long.
That the King of Siam has forty.six names?
That an eagle can live for twenty days without
food?
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tall figure in REFER coat came looming up.
This was the man with the pipe. lie was smok.
ing now The glow Of it set Molly's heart a.
beating. He used to smoke pipes-the che" she
was dreaming of in her boat.
II hope the skipper won't mind" she began
meekly. "The cabin is delightful, but--I-I felt
/ must come mp on deck Does IL matter9"
There was such long silence on the part Of
the man with the pipe, Molly feared IL mattered
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to fill any position in life, matter how ex-
alted
If they poor people, they keep him at school
as long they can, supporting him in idleness
while they work and slave for him. They give
him as much spending money and many lux
uries as they possibly can, often more than they
can afford, thus creating in him need for things
that his own later earnings will be unable to
procure
If they can do so, they send him to college, thus
securing for him four extra years of idleness.
Here they provide him with every luxury, in
order that their boy may be as well fixed as
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anybody elses, and often they provide him with
more luxury, even, than he has been accustomed
to at home.
Their boy has so much talent, and such an anti
tude for study, that when he graduates he is
going to take more honors than any milIionaire's 3
son in college; and, at any rate, the friendships
that he forms at college are going to be of i'm
mense value to him in his later business career.
AS matter of fact. their boy is just young
fellow of ordinary capacities. He can study lust
as well as the rest of them and he can also shirk
his studies we'll as the rest and il his fond
parents only knew, he very often does neglect
his tasks.
He is also just open to temptation. as the
rest of the students, and very often it happens
that the friendships his parents hope will be so
beneficial in later years are at the present time
quite detrimental to him.
COLLEGE TEMPTATIONS.
If the other fellows drink when they 90 out.
he has to do it, too in order to avoid being called
"a sponge" and "seltzer lemonade" If the other
fellows gamble, he has to gamble, too It makes
fellow feel quite grown up to play cards. and.
besides, it is such an easy way to repenish your
pocketbook- you win.
There are all sorts of temptations to be encoun,
tered at college, and the average young man can.
not resist them. He cannot stand ridicule. and
he has to feel that he is as much a man as any.
body else; and so he yields to temptation easily.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-18
BOATING COSTUME In church

1he Rev. b. IL. Bosanquet, Vicar of Thames
Ditton, announces in his parish magazine that the
church wardens will be glad to reserve special
seats for those in boating costumes in the gallery
Of the parish church on Sunday mornings.