The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-10-01
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~ FTEN there are clever brains
about us of whose workings
~ we care nothing save so far as
they serve TO the DETER NOV.
lpg OF our dishes or the more scientific
brushing and folding Of our clothes.
Hum"rists and philosophers have de.
scribed or con ectured or caricatured
the world of those who wait on MS. in
Wiling us to consider how we may an.
pear to the Inward gaze Of the eyes
which are so ohndieutly cast down he.
fore ours or so dutifully alert TO antlci.
j pate our orders. As rule, we decline
| the invitation. The task seems at once
dilicult aud unnecessary. Enough TO
! remember that the owners of the eyes
have ears ANA mouths also! A small
| leak left uuStauohcd will empty the
largest caSl> at last. II is well TO keep
that in mind both in private concerns
and In affairs Of public magnitude.
Inc kings body servant Emile Le-
page, had been set a-thinking. This
was the result of the various and pro
fuse scoldings which he had undergone
for calling young Count Alexis prince"
The kings brief, sharp words at the
conference had been elaborated into "A
reproof both longer and sterner than
his majesty was wont 10 trouble him.
self to administer He had been very
stroug on the utter folly Of putting
such Ideas into the boys head. I.epage
was pretty clear that the idea had come
from the boys head into his. but he |
said nothing more of that. The boy
himself scolded Lepage, first for hav-
ing been overheard. second. and. as Le- |
page guessed, after being scolded him. |
self very roundly. for using the offend. |
Ing title at all. Meekly Lepage bore |
this cross also. indeed. with some |
amusement and n certain touch of pity |
for young Alexis, who was not prince
ana obviously could not make out why. |
In the books kings sons were always
princes, even though there We're as In
those glorious days there often were.
fifty or threesc0le of them.
Then Countess Ellenburg scolded
him. The kings IT'S absurdw was
sorely in her mind. Her scold.
ing was In her heaviest manner, very
religious. She called Heaven to wit
ness that never by word or deed had
she done ANYTHING TO give her boy such
n notion The days are gone by when
Heaven makes overt present answer.
Nothing happened. She roundly charg-
ed Lepage with fostering the idea for
his own purposes. He wanted to set
IbFfnsn .,f
brother, she supposed. and to curry IA
vor with the rising sun at the poor
,hllds cost.
She was very effective, but she an.
sered Lepage almost beyond endur-
lnce. BY disposition he was thorough
y good naturcd II sardonic and impas-
'ive He could not suffer the accusa-
ion of having injured the pretty boy
or his own ends. II was both odious
ma absurd. He snapped back smartly
It her, Il hope nobody will do more to
'ut wrong IDEAS in his head than
AVE done, Nine. la Comtesse." In
ury she drove him from the room, but
he had started ever so slightly. I.e-
'age's alert brain jumped at the sig
lal.
Finally Stenovics himself had a lee.
ure for poor, much lectured Lepage.
was one Of the mscalcuations
o which an Overcautious cunning Is 9
'rone. StenOvlcs was gentle and con :
iderate, but he was very urgent-urg-
mt above all that nothing should be :
ala about the episode, neither about II ,
lor about the other reprimands, ST. !
ence, silence, silence was his burden. ,
1epage thought more and more. 1t is
'etter to put up with gossip than to h
i've the idea that the least gossip
you'd be serious offense. People gos- 4
ip without thinking. It's easy come 1
nc gone, easy speaking and easy for !
citing, but stringent injunctions not I
talk are apt to make men think. \
references to the rising sun also may
reed reflection In the satellites of a n
citing orb. Neither Countess Ellen !
urg nor General Stenovics had been
$ well advised as usual in this essen
laily trumpery matter !,
In short, nervousness had been be-
rayed. Whence came it7 What did II n
leanY IL 1t meant anything, could Le-
age turn that thing to account? The :
ing's favorite attendant was no favor 4
q with Countess Ellenburg. For I.e- :
age, too. the time might be very :