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self,' offered Dabney. lit will saw
Perkins the trouble of hitching up and
driving back here again. That's no
part Of his postal labors."
Ruby stamped her foot again.
IL think you are perfectly horrid,'
she declared. 'Just as though you
could pick out the right ~colors!"
"a man ought to know his own
class colors," Dabney defended. You
say 1 never do anything for you, and
then when l offer to take a hot trip
to town and walk all the way back
you call me horrid. Here comes Peter
Perkins now. l guess I'll slide into
the house. Great emotions always up.
set me-"
He lodged into one Of the low win
dows before Ruby could reach him
with the cushion she had caught up
from one of the chairs, and his mock
ing laugh rang out as the girl gave a
little shake to her ruffled plumage and
started down the shady walk to the
gate.
The ramshackle wagon used in the
rural free delivery service was just
drawing up to the block, and she
climbed lightly to a place beside the
stalwart young fellow, whose glad
smile showed all too plainly the pleas
r he felt.
'It was awfully good Of you to come
back this way for me-" she said after
her hand had fingered an instant in his
| muscular grip. Dab does make such
a martyr OF himself when he does any
| thing for me, and MI. Slocum will not
let us have the horses in the harvest.
ing season."
II was only too glad to come back
said Perkins simply. you can't
| blame SlOcum about the horses. He
needs them all Just now. If you como
to a real farmhouse to spend the sum
mer, you cannot expect a livery outfit
like those places where the biggest
! crop they raise is summer boarders."
at. has been such a real summer
she said smilin=ly. 81 hate the round
Of fashionable hotels. This has been
ideal"
"Parkvale is a pretty nice place." be
said ~reflectively. Il don't know when
I ever spent a more pleasant summer
myself"
"You have done a very great deal to
ward making things pleasant for me-
said Ruby. 81 don't know when ]
ever saw Dabney SO disobliging. II II
had not been for you. ! don't know
what I should have DONE"
"We + supposed to be polite" he
reminded. Its in the regulations"
Ruby wondered If the regulations re
quired him to hitch up a fresh rig and
drive her back to the farm after hel
purchases were made, a he had done
a score Of times. s5% Il
From the first she had been attract
ed to the handsome young driver 81
the rural delivery. He was SO unlike
the men she knew In town. She sbud
dered at the name OF Peter Perkins
It did not match lis manner 81. Iii:
appearance. but she had almost for
gotten his name except when he
brother feassd her about II. AZ firs
AAEN ~ $50 ErAL HlHN
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summer term. His father was worth
understand why he needed to grind
over books.
"No." Betty Belle told him; mo men
are allowed above the first floor of our
dormitory."
"Well, we will serenade you while
you are eating it," Dick said.
."Please DON'T" Betty begged.
"Why not?" Dick asked in surprise.
His attentions had always been sought
rather than refused, and he had meant
that Betty Belle should appreciate the
high honor he was comforting.
"It's against the rules" Betty Belle
said. !.
II shouldn't think you would mind
a little thing like that"
81 DON'T said Betty Belle, 'but you
can't afford to lose any standing"
He flushed. .You needn't hit a fell
low when he's down. I don't care
whether 1 get through next year or
not"
Swell, / do" said little Betty Belle.
"You told me about your mother. and
I don't think you ought tn disappoint
her."
Dicks eyes dropped before the clear
ones Of the little southern girl.
~ shouldn't like to disappoint her.
he murmured.
But that night as six girls In all the
comfort Of dainty kimonos and dress
ing sacks ate %cocoanut cake and chick.
en- sandwiches with ginger ale. accom-
paniment there ioated up through the
air the strains of Dixie.
s"sThere,'' said Drusilla Davis; that is
in your honor, Betty Belle"
Betty, pink and white and charming
I'm her rosy kin,ono, tapped a small
foot impatiently.
.sWell, I wish he wouldn't" she said,
Margaret Mills looked at her with
raised eyebrows. Why, Betty Belle
Fairfax she exclaimed, she Is worth
. million! Any girl would he glad "a
have him pay her attention.
q don't care IL lie Is worth ten mil.
lions" Betty Belle returned quickly;
.she isn't II gentleman"
The girls looked at her, startled.
ssWhy. Betty Belle one gasped. what
makes yon say such d. thing?'
HE isn't affirmed Betty Belle, with
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Knowing
Miss KnOWltOn
By MARSHALL LEONARD.
Copyright. 1907. by William Darcy.

1t seemed to Travers that life really
began for him when he came to Lester
to superintend the building of the cleo
trio works, for until then life had been
uneventful. and he had not known OF
Ada Knowlton.
Even now he merely knew of her,
for Travers was not a ladies' man. Tic
was too terribly in earnest to shine IN
society, and, though he had been Iii
Lester for nearly two months, he seem
ed as far from his goal as ever. Every
Sunday he went to church and sat
where he could watch the choir where
Ada sang, the stained glass forming a
background for the shapely golden
head. The Rev. Josiah Rumford watch
ed %approvingly the expression Of rapt
interest that was upon Travcrs' a
all through the III He could not
notice that the keen blue eyes of the
young contractor We're upon the choir
rather than upon the pulpit, and he
felt gratiied that he should hold his
auditor so we'll.
So it happened that the Rev. Josiah
stopped at the new factory one morn
ing and extended an invitation to
Travers to join a church picnic the
following week.
cit is almost a family affair."" he eX-
planned as Jimmie's hand went down
into his trousers pocket. Il am not
selling tickets. 1t is purely by invita-
ton and only for the members of the
Sunday school. but thought that per-
haps you might like to meet some Of
the young people and get acquainted
Jimmy beamed upon the kindly old
man as he thought of Ada Knowlton
and accepted the invitation with an eff
f%usivcness that caused the minister TO
wonder at certain comments he had
heard regarding the unsociabilfty of
the newcomer.
"He is most Cordial" he told his
wife. II am sure that he needs only
to get acquainted to be a decided addi-
tion to our little society. am sorry
that l did not look him up earlier"
Travers echoed the same sentiment
Ms he went about his work. Surely at
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"DoN'r MOVE" SAID A GENTLE VOICE.

O1N u MOVE, SAID a dLNI1G tOiCE.
the picnic he should meet Miss Knowl.
ton, and meeting Miss KnoWltOn had
almost become an obsessiOn with him.
He climbed W the stagings and plat
forms with a light heart as he imagin-
ed the manner in which they should
meet. He rather fancied an introduce
ton under the trees. He would ad-
rance with barred head and bow low
over her hand. Then she would give
him one of those sunny smiles that az
most seemed to be her habitual express
sion, and they would go walking to-
gether in the leafy shade. Over and
over he mentally rehearsed this scene
until it became almost real to him.
But at the last moment there came
. complication ut the factory, and it
was after II when Travers finally got
away. He lost his way trying to
drive out in a livery buggy. and when
at last he came to the lake lunch was
over and the merrymakers had scat
tered through the woods.
The minister and his wife Insisted
that he have something TO eat. and
then motherly Mrs. Rumford took him
in charge and introduced him to every
one in sight, but Ada Knowlton was
nowhere to he een
He made himself agreeable to the
others. but his eyes continually sought
q sight of the pink dress and golden
head that had been the attraction. He
had seen them drive past on their way
to the lake, and he had carefully noted
the dress, but not a glimpse of it did
he get until we'll along in the after
noon.
Here and there the surface Of the
lake was dotted with small boats and
canoes, and in one Of the latter he
saw the flash Of pink that seemed te
communicate its color to his face. Miss
lKnowlton, and alone! And she was
padding in to the landing! f
With assumed carelessness, he di'
rected his steps toward the tiny wharf
TO which the boats were tied. he
would be on hand to assist her from
1.-THE canoe, and perhaps after he had
introduced himself there might be Z
ichance for the walk after all.
He had just reached the dock ant
the fran craft was but twenty yards
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0ef 0eau neiQ llSu. Lie eeAIcASeA
at my home have consideration for the
wishes of ladies', and told him not to
sing. And he has an invalid mother
who is just praying for his success. and
he is wasting his time. 1t isn't right;
it isn't right" And Betty Belle clap
ped both hands over her ears to shut
out the strains of Dixie"
"Some one will tell Dick Chase what
you said about him." Drusilla told the
small maiden after the other girls had.
gone to their rooms.
81 don't care" said Betty Belle hot
~, but when Drusilla went away she
got down at the window and looked.
out for a long time upon the moon
lighted campus.
Then she rose and took the one piece
Of cocoanut cake that was left and
wrapped it up in a dainty parcel and
tied it with ribbon, and in the morning
she sent it by Prudence to Dick Chase.
with a little note.
81 said things about you last night"
was the confession he read in her clear
cut writing. II said you were not a
gentleman. Some n may tell you.
and l shouldn't like to have you hear
it that way. But l didn't think you
were courteous to disregard my wishes,
and l worried about your mother. l
know you won't forgive me. but I had
to explain"
At noon on the campus Dick Chase
came IN to Betty Belle.
at was right-what you said," he
told her soberly. 1--WE been a fearful
cad. and 1 needed n good jolt"
Betty Belle sat down on a seat under
the elms. ''You see, l have lots of
brothers." she conided. "and know
how mothers feel about their boys
and. then, / couldn't bear to see you
going to the bad"
There was a little tremble in her
voice, and Dick looked up quickly. do
you care?" he asked eagerly.
EYES," Betty Belle told him without.
coquetry. II think we could be good
friends if you would pull up"
Dick flung himself down on the
bench beside her. 81 would have to.
be more than friends, Betty Belle" he.
said. "I-have grown to think a lot OF
you; you r so-different."
THAT'S what Drusilla says" Betty
Belle remarker. "and I don't just see
what you all mean"
"Well you are SO good and true, lit
tie Betty Belle. You make a fellow
feel that life is worth while"
That night in dormitory 10 Betty
Belle made a confession.
81 am sorry that l said such things
about Dick Chase" They were sitting
in the dark, and the other girls could
not see her bushes. II was i'll Il bit
Of a temper, you know"
Southern blood?' commented Mar
garet Mills.
Maybe" said Betty Belle.
Across the campus they could see the
lights in the mems dormitory. In M
room a crowd of boys had gathered
around a piano, and their voices foatel
out in u %rollicking college song. In
another room a lamp with a green
shade made a halo around a mans
bent head. "
"Why, I believe Dick Chase is study
ing" said Drusilla Davis. "What is.
going to happeny"
HE is going to turn over a new
leaf" said Betty Belle demurely.
Something in her voice made the
girls ask in a chorus. GLOW do you
kpowe" T,
Because I am engaged to him." said
Betty Belle. X
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The Wisdom Of Dorothy.

Dorothy does not relish being left
alone to go to sleep. One night after
she is tucked in bed by her mother,
who then leaves her, she calls to her
father and asks IL he isn't coming to
bed after he finishes his dinner.
Yes; I'll go to bed as soon MS my
dinner digcsts.',
"All right; come upstairs now. You
dinner will digest upstairs Just as well
% down." argues the Young hopeful
Judges Library.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-07
ANNAPOLIS NEWS NOTES.
Bachelor Officers Entertain at Naval
Academy
special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
ANNAPOLIS. Md. January I, 1901
The bachelor officers at the Naval Acad-
envy entertained their friends Saturday
night at a reception at the officers mess In
the new club building at the academy. The
Naval Academy Band under Prof thinner
man furnished music.
Mrs. Willard H. Brownson. wife of Ad-
of the Naval Academy. has sent d check
for $50 to the Rev. w. T. Twamey rector
of Eastport st. Luke's. to be used in the
parish here.
Mrs. c. s. Williams. wife of Lieut. Com.
Williams, Is spending the winter here. to
be with her son, Midshipman Williams Of
the fourth class. Naval Academy
The Rev. Alexander c. Hensiey rector
of ST. Johns Church. Versailles KY is Wis
iting his sister. Mrs c: E. Colahan. widow
Of Capt. Colahan. U. 8. N.
The Rev. F. H. Sill. o. H. c.. one of the
fathers of the Order Of the Holy Cross. ad-
dressed the midshipmen yesterday evening
at the Y. M. G.. A. services at the Naval
Academy.
Capt. Douglass H. Duval. u s. A.. who
Is stationed at Camp Columbia. Cuba, was
called home by the death of his mother,
mrs Marian Lee Duval. widow Of DR.. E. P
Duval. The funeral of Mrs. Duval took
place Saturday from st. Annes. the rector
Rev. Jos. P. McComas, conducting the
services
The pallbearers were Lieut.. Fairfield
U. s. N. son-in-law of the deceased, and
her son, Capt Douglass H. Duyal, U. 8. A..
Richard. FentOn and Edward P. Duval
and a nephew Mr.. Johnson of Frostburg
The interment was in st. Annes Cemetery.
The remains of Miss Anna Norman,
eighty-ntne years old. who died Saturday
at the Chase Home. were taken to Darling
ton yesterday for interment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-07
FEARS RATS WILL EXPLODE.
Rodents Ate Dynamite and Farmer
Cannot Sleep.

WORCESTER. Mass, January I.-Charles
B. Dana of oxford has barn full of rats.
During the last month they have eaten ten
pounds of dynamite which was stored in
his barn for the winter by a contractor.
The condition of affairs has driven Mr..
Dana to the verge of nervous prostration.
He says since the dynamite disappeared he
has seen more rats and larger rats than
ever before.
I'm afraid to throw brick at the pesky
critters for fear they will explode and
blow up the barn" he says. Il can hardly
sleep nights, thinking that one of them may
fall out of the haymow to the barn floor
and send my horses and cattle to Kingdom
come. When / go out to feed the stock
handle the hay and bedding as gingerly as
I'd handle eggs What If one of those ami
NAL bombs should be in it? The shock I'd
give him by throwing him about might
blow everything up.
Dana Is trying to entice rat away from
the barn for experimenting purposes. but
has had no success.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-07
WRIT THAT BLOCKS JACKSON.
at May Not Really Prohibit" he
Saws of McClellan's Move

NEW YORK, January Before leaving
for Albany on the go O'Clock train last
night Attorney General William S. Jackson
was asked whether or not any action was
to be taken in regard to the alternative
writ of prohibition that was granted to
Mayor Mcclellan by Justice Fits In the
supreme court at Albany, whereby the at
torney general was prohibited from pro-
ceeding further by quo warranto to test
the title of Mayor Mcclellan to his office.
1T may be that the writ of prohibition
may not really prohibit said Attorney
General Jackson. He would not explain.
MIR. Jackson came here Saturday night
after the writ of prohibition had been is
sued by Justice Fits. Neither Mr.. Jackson
or his associates at Albany made any Sc
cret of the fact that Mr.. Jackson was COM
ing here To confer with the Hearst people
as To what course he should pursue.
One story had IL that application
would be made to of the supreme court
Justices elected on the democratic ticket
in this county for order dissolving the
writ issued by Justice Fits.
Attorney General Jackson saw several
lawyers at the Victoria Hotel. and IL is said
that he saw some of MI Hearsts lawyers
elsewhere. if not Mr.. Hearst himself One
of the things Mr.. Jackson is said to have
conferred about was the evidence that the
Hearst people have on which to base their
claims for a recount Mr.. Jackson Is said
to have been anxious for information on
this score In view of the fact that in their
application for a writ of prohibition the
lawyers representing Mayor Mcclellan set
not pass upon the facts which former At
torney General Mayer had held would not
warrant the commencement of quo war
ranto proceedings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-07
Pastor Remembered.

Rev. DR.. James H. Lee, pastor of the
Third Baptist Church. 9Th and @ streets
northwest. was presented with a suit OF
clothes and other articles of apparel and a
purse Of money by the deacons. trustees.
and other male members Of the church,
headed by Deacon Daniel Lewis. The pres
entation speech was made by Rev. Charles
Cushingberry. Other members gave cash
amounting to $4025. A fine revolving chair
for the study room was presented by Miss
Hattie Kicks. and provisions Of all kinds
were donated by the Pastors Aid Society,
Mrs. Berthe Millburn. president. Others
who contributed were Mrs. Sheridan Carter
and Mrs G. Poindexter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-07
TWO BRANCHES COMBINED.
Water Registrars Office and Water
Department to Be Consolidated.

The consolidation of the water registrar
Office with the water department of the
District was decided upon by the Commits
sioners this morning and will be put into
effect within few days. according to Col.
Biddle, Engineer Commissioner. under
whose supervision these two branches OF
the District come The two offices Will be
conducted just as they are now. there be-
ing no particular changes. except that all
reports and communications to the Com
missioners will be made through the super
intendent Of the water department Instead
of by him and the water registrar separ-
ately. as is now the case.
The water department is divided into
two distinct Offices One department Is
other the revenue and inspection branch.
the former being under the superintendent
of the water department and the latter
under the registrar. Notwithstanding the
efficiency of the officials and the working
forces Of both Of these branches, conflicts
present themselves because of the close re-
lationShi3, and after consulting with w. A.
Mcfarland. superintendent OF the water de-
partment, and George A. Wallace, water
registrar, Capt. Kelley. assistan engineer
commissioner. who represents Commissioner
Biddle in the direct supervision recon-
mended to the Commissioners several days
ago that these two branches be CONSOLE
dated and that the superintendent of the
water department be made the nominal
head The water registrar will continue
the executive head of the revenue and in
spection end Of the department.
The Commissioners believe that this
change will not only prove more satisfac-
tory to the general public. but In the eXecu
ton Of the two offices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-07
FILED FOR PROBATE.
Will of Mrs. Elizabeth sturges Reed
Killed in Wreck

Inc VIII of Mrs. Elizabeth Sturges Reed
VINO was killed in the Terra Gotta wreck
was filed today for probate The document
dated October 10, 1905. devised her entir.
estate to her daughter. Janet McFarquhal
Reed, who was injured in the wreck. and /.
now at Providence Hospital Mrs. Rec,
directs that her daughter be kept in a gooc
boarding school and then sent to college
She names Thomas Patterson of Pitts
burg and Julia McAllister of New York a.
guardians of the little girl. Mr.. Patterson
is also named as executor
FROM the inscription on the envelope con.
tanning Mrs. Reeds will, ii is believed thai
she had a premonition she would die sIiJ.
Denly The envelope. an Official one al
the Department of Justice Is indorsed ..-r1
De opened In case Of my death, and i'm case
oI sudden death send at once for Tom Pat
terson. Esq. Prick building, Pittsburgb
Pa = -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-07
Schooner a Total Loss.

The schooner A. ]. Stewart. hailing from
Richmond. which was beached on Gwynr
island, Chesapeake bay, about month ago
has been given up by her owners and, ex-
cept for the few things that can be moved
from her. will prove a total loss. The
schooner at the time she went ashore was
bound from Richmond to Baltimore with a
cargo of pine lumber, but the greater par,
OF her cargo was removed from the strand
ed schooner and taken ashore. The Stew
art was owned by Capt. ]. E Russell and
was built In Matthews county. Va. in 1870
and had been almost constantly employed
in the Chesapeake bay trade since being
built.
The three-masted schooner r. w. Hop
kins, which went ashore abreast OF Cape
Henry the latter part of last week. was
foated unframed and has arrived at Balti-
more, her destination. The schooner Is re-
ported to have drifted. side on, on the beach
and was soon fioated without sustaining
damage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-07
Boyds and Vicinity.
,ecial Correspondence Of The Star.

BOYDS. Nd, January Z, 1907.
Mrs Sarah Ann Johnson, widow of Ben
jamin Johnson Of Montgomery county. who
died at the home of her daughter. Mrs.
A. B. Thompson. near Germantown. Satur-
day night, aged seventy-four years, be-
came Ill of measles a few weeks
ago and her heart was affected, caus-
ing her death. She had been twice
married Three children. Mrs. A. B.
Thompson. John H. Andrews Of Boyds and
Mrs Nell Nicholson. residing near Barnes
VILE survive her. Interment took place
today in Neelsvifie Presbyterian cemetery.
Rev. 7. Davis Richards preaching the
funeral discourse.
Mrs. John W. Williams of Boyds. who
has been. Ill of neuralgia of the heart is
much better and will be able to be out
possibly in few days.
Miss Addie Small. daughter of Mrs. Mary
T. Small, living near Darnestown. this
county, was recently married at Gathers
burg to Mr.. Charles B. Howard Of Ounce
Orchard. this county. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Thomas ]. Lambert
Of the Grace NJ. e. Church South. Mr.. and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-07
BOSTON LID ON TIGHT
SUNDAY LAWS RIGIDLY ENFORC
ED BY DISTRICT ATTORNEY.

BOSTON, Mass. January 7.-ThankS to
District Attorney Moran, the lid was again
closed down tight on Boston yesterday.
Last Sunday, after wordy warfare be-
tween the district attorney and the police
commissioners, in the course of which the
former declared that Sunday laws must be
enforced as well as others. and the latter
retorted that 1t had been customary to use
discretion. the police were ordered to jam
the lid down. AS consequence some 200
test case SummonSeS were served. and the
courts were busy all the week deciding
whether this or that was necessary with
in the meaning of the statute.
The men who move baggage and scenery
from theaters after Saturday nights per-
formances were among those held up. More
of them were summoned yesterday morning.
Bakers, bootblacks. photographers, hotel
orchestras, express men. window washers
and ice cream vendors were among the
many whom the law caught.
Some Exceptions.
federal janitor was summoned for
washing the postofflce sidewalk. but the
United States district attorney stepped to
his defense and SO the police let him alone
today. Nor were men bothered yesterday
who were seen cleaning automobiles.
Judges have varied during the week in
their opinions on this crime. and the police
commissioners ordered hands Of" But
demonstrators were apprehended wher-
ever encountered, and also any one found
repairing q car.
Guests of hotels were yesterday unaccom-
panied by music. Photographers and florists
kept the CLOSED shop" bakers ceased from
baking and men went without their laundry
and without Shines" The water front was
quiet. though tugboats continued their min
istrations to incoming vessels. Railway
work was restricted to the necessary" The
street department. however. had it's patrols
out picking up waste paper. etc, but no
sweeping was done. Last Sunday the entire
force took the day of.