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he was a little, thin man. whose very
white face wore expression of resign
ed and sanity suffering. His eyes had a
holy upward cock and when he spoke to
Father Ktnse!lagh he folded his hands on
his breast. He presented Blanca with
much bowling and gesticulating. and the
statement that he would beat her black il
she did not cook well for his reverence.
Then he saw her installed in the kitchen,
and with a triumphant leer at Kate lin
sering hungrily as long as she might over
her pots and pans he departed to boast
to his neighbors of his daughters ag-
grandizement. Blanca accepted with great
anna bility all kate's instructions, pro-
lOnged throughout the morning
Il not like TAXA your place. but milo
padre maka me-" she said once. touching
Hates arm timidly.
Kate was a little mOll1ffed.
Hes turrible ould divil. and ought to
be arrested if he wasn't half cracked"
she said
Signor MAGMA bona like to eat?" ques-
toned Blanca. her eyes pathetic:
You're here to cook fur the priest.
miss. I'd have you KNOW. said Kate.
Then as Blanca cringed. she added hastily.
There. there; I'm not goin' to slap you.
/ suppose it's not your fault you're fool
and have to show ut.
But her respect for Blanca rose when
she found that the girl was really teach
able Evidently Blanca did not have the
Italian inability to grasp the principles of
American cooking. The dinner she pre-
pared for the father that night was by
no means UNBEATABLE. 1t .occuFed to Kate
that she might really enjoy her enforced
vacation. for she could still be in COM
mand, with somebody else to carry out
orders Then. too, Blanca was SO watch
full of her needs and so attentive to her
words and so affeetionate In her ways
that Hates big Irish heart could scarcely
fail to respond. But whenever she thought
of Father Kinsellagh's demand that Mi
chael should call. her manner grew crisp
and her lips frightened. Did the father
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gentlemen up to John Quincy Adams. and
tell the porter to take that trunk out of
the alcove Of Thomas Jefferson. Front. go
and put down that window in Rutherford
B. Hayes and, here. take this whisky up
to Abraham Lincoln. Front, what's all
that racket in James Buchanan? Here
take these cigars to L. S. Grant and turn
off the gas in Grover Cleveland But
I nearly tainted when he. said. Front
run a sofa into James A. Garfield and
take these two ladies up to George Wash
ington.'
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l got to playing wild Pasquale and he won
all | had off me. and more. and got me
note. You wudn't want to be in debt to a
dago yourself; savin' your presence, you
wud not"
us that all?"
"And then he wants to know when am l
goin' to marry Bianca." muttered Mac
Mahon. Il used to like the child well
enough, but l niver thought-why. she's
not the big Nv bees knee. and like all
thin dagos when she talks her tongue
goes like the clapper Wv a bellows. And
there's Kate, you see-sure. me intentions
to Blanca" he grinned, "are honorable
enough. feather. but distant"
well, you needn't marry her If you
don't want to, you general" said Father
Kinsellash; maybe kate'n have you yet,
Italian alliance by coming to pass the
time of day with her; Go home. you con-
trairy man, and think Of my words
Monday morning Pasquale brought BIZ
anca to the side door Of the priests house
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a little mauzuma in the vest jocket I've
got new bit of recitation spiel l
cooked up last night when couldn't sleep
It's called Knock. and the World Knocks
With You and I'll put you jerry to it
right now before it gets cold.'
Well I'm from Texas. so you'll have
to steer me-" said Juvenile.
Pipe the everlasting truth contained
herein" said Mike, whereupon he pro-
ceeded as follows:
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Mortal Caesar. Ha. ha. ha. ha"
roared Jabe. ''Doggone, if that amt
funny" you fat cuss'
When quit them Mike had worn finger
marks on the side of the black bottle,
and Jabe had signed verbal contract to
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go on the stage as the Juveniles dresser.
I'm for the Reub hotel. strong.
Yours as always,
]. H.
Next week: John Henry on Butter
milk"
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cuttin' me out Nv me legitimate beau; but
it's not you'll succeed wild your schemes
If you lave thin two to themselves at
present
What do you mean. woman?" doomed
Father Kinseilagh.
Kate looked pleasantly at the ceiling,
and then said, You'll excuse me, PLACE,
father"
Il X
She went back to the kitchen and found
MacMahon still gloomily eying the clock.
while Blanca looked sadly at her slim,
folded hands. Hates kind heart stirred
at the sight.
Cit out some Nv thin cakes you made
today. Blanca" she said: land put on
some tay fur Misther MacMahon."
Then she made the talk so pleasant that
MacMahon, without thinking of it, shook
hands with Bia when he left
Kate was both amused ard worried to
notice ti'at the next time MacMahon came
Father kinseliagh called them all three
into his study and showed them some of
the photographs he had taken in Italy.
The father was good talker, and his de-
scriptions and the honor he was confer
ring on them soon so uplifted MacMahon
and Blanca ihat they lost all Self-con-
sciousness. Her face was soft as a
pearl when the father spoke of the Arno.
'Ah, she cried; the first thing
knowa is playing there by that green
Arno. while mia madre wash the clothes
ah motto bello. And then mia madra
TAXA walk. We go on Ponte Vecchio and
saw the jewel-oh, more. more than the
stars are"
She swept her slim arms in free ges-
ture, and MaoMahon noticed with a kind
of wonder that she was beautiful Kate
caught the look. and a queer. half-resent-
full pain smote her Michael liked her red
hair and pink cheeks. but he had admired
them in a free and easy way; now he was
looking at Blanca as he sometimes looked
at the stained glass windows in church or
at the big painting of the madonna over
Father Kinsellagh's fireplace
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Investor-When will the company be on
its own feet again?
Receiver-When it is out OF my hands.
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GM EAR Bunch: Still in the ring at
a the Spoonsburg Commercial
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IL dape the near-actors Of the
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TITLE Father Michael Kinsellagh
was lingering over his Sunday
morning breakfast. trying to keep
himself awake with the strong
coffee prepared by the house.
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Sure. father" said MacMahon. warm
iy. II often think. begcr. If l cud free
Oireland Wild wan blow. what a fine wan
I'd take: and twill be the same in helpin'
you kape ordher among thin dagos. It's
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thought Of an Italian as beautiful. The
race had seemed to him only dirty ana
obnoxious and as alien as monkeys.
And begor! she's got pretty tongue
in her head. too he thought, with the
love of the true Celt for words which Is
greater than his love for meat or drink.
The next time MacMahon called he In
cluded Blanca in the conversation. and II
occurred to Kate that matters were pro-
crossing so well that Blanca needed no
assistance.
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Ia construction De IA eScuadra
ESPANOLA


ma para pedir prroroga en- ell
concurso de construction de la
futura escuadra.
Desde las primeras horas de
la maflana la poblaci6n presen-
taban aspecto extraordinario.
Todos los trenes llegaban ates-
tados por las comisiones q, fue-
ron y Representatives. de los
Ayuntamientos, gremios y socie-
dades.
Todas estas comisiones tue
ron recibidas en- la estacion por
el Ayuntamiento Y Camara de
Comercio de esta capital.
Precedidos de una banda de
musica entraron en- la poblacion.
pue estaba engalanada, Y Sc
dirigieron al teatro Campoamor,
donde Sc ha celebrado la asam-
blea.
FL teatro estaba completa-
mente lleno.
Presidio el teniente alcalde
sen0r Peso, Y a su lado sc senta-
ban los diputados senores Celle-
Alvarez. Alas Pumorino
y Pedregal, los presidentes de
las Camaras de Comercio de
Ovledo Y Glj0n, V representan-
ties industriales V obreros.
Despues de explicar Ell objeto
de la reunion el presidente. ha-
blaron los senores Aza, presi-
dente de la junta de defensa de
Trubia; Roza, presidente de la
Camara dc Gijon, Y Santos, por
los obreros de Oviedo Y Gij6n'
Usaron despues dc la pala bra
los diputados senores Alas Pu-
Celleruelo, Pedregal, VI
por ultimo don Melquiades Al
varez, que pronuncio elocuenti-
simo discurso
Todos los oradores fueron
muy aplaudidos al defender la
necesidad de que la escuadraI
sea construida con materialesI
espanoles, los canones en- Ia
fabrica de Trubia Y el blindaie
En- Asturias.
ID. Melquiades Alvarez dijoI
que su opinion era pisimista en-
este aSuntO p0rqne no puede
flarse en- las reCtas intenclones
del gobierno. pues aunque pro-
meti0 simultanear.la coustruc-
ci0n. no loha cumplldo
Dijo que era dificil conseguir
10 que st pretende por carecer
Asturias de Independence po
Utica para hacer petlcionesI
2n6rgicas como las hacen losI
catalaneS,
Terminates los dicursos Sc
IeyerOn numerosas adhesiones
It AyuDtamlentOs Y diputaCiO-
nes que no pudieron asistir.
LuegO fueron aprobadas por
Inanimidad las conclusiones ST.
guientes: Primero, que Sc pro-
ROGUE el plaz0 hasta Ell 2I del
Octubre para la adjudication
lei concurso Segundo, que sc
10 dispuesto Ell la ley de i
IA de febrero de 1907 sobre pro-
-ecci6n al trabajo nacional, vi
-ercer0, que antes dc que Sc
aprueba detinitivamente cual- |
luier proposition de las pre- |
5entadaS al concurso sc olga al
OOnseJo Superior de la produc-
c1On naCiOnal.
Los COncurrentes al meeting
recorrieron ordenadamente va
-las GALES dc Ia poblaci0n En-
>1obierno civil entrcgaron las
anteriores, que Sc
ran preSentadas tambien al rev
En- San Sebastian por una nu-
nerosisima comisi0n, compues-
Ia de industriales, diputados y
0breros,
81 Sc denegase la peticion,
Asturias hallase dispuesto 4 re
curriT tOdOs los mediOS paraI
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French top poodles and her frocks had my reward
You'd make dandy diplomat, whispered
Baroness Won Lutz, as we left the dining room, and
then she suggested archly, Don't you want to
come home with and see the real Vice Preslden-
tial godchild? l haven't seen him myself for two
days. 49,
''Wou1dn't you rather have him all alone. them
l asked remembering certain tender days when
Hopeville interest seemed obtruslve.
''Aone!" the Baroness echoed. why, my dear
Mrs Rural, I've never had my baby alone since it
was born The who has been in Ludwig S
family since the Crusades and my old Norah are
always hand, either separately as grim sentinels
to guard against my inexperience or together fight
ing vigorously over methods in German and Irish
Then there's the bonnie, with sash ribbons on her
hair who rolls the perambulator because my
mother insists upon dash of smartness in her
grandson's public appearance-and l used to- be
mother sewed more Bingham slips! But the boy
thrives and I'd love to show him to YOU"
We went up into her sitting room in the
Legation, and the servants arranged tea things
and the two nurses appeared, first with an ungainy
sort of bassinet on heavy gilded standard -
Dutch idealizaton of the oxen manger," the Baron
ess remarked dryly,-and then they brought in the
tiny lean Michel Emmanuel Ludwig Won Lutz.
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think the way fell into your pie
crust on your vest strategem is
bowling jest on me" chuckled the
guest, her appearance of having
been caught with the tarts on her
merging into the candor of sign
board. I'D better make clean
breast of that little experiment
with the pantry shelf, or Mrs.
Rural will not give me credit for
even the division of temperament
accorded the little girl with the
little curl.
You see," she went on, when
l met that circus rider of diplo-
mat, Roderique, / was that keen
about becoming an author that
his suggestion for a collaboration
raised my conceit to an mean
descent pitch, and l was horribly
foolish for a time Then one night
when we were dining with one of
the Washington colony of South
African millionaires, the daughter
of the house, a girl you could
white all the way through with
out finding any pith, and with a
bath bun inside her head as we'll
as under her wreath of pompadour,
confded to me that she was going
to write defense of the monarch
of Etruria with Captain Roderique.
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American near-diplomat, with ambitious1y in
triguing wife, and summed up the case If
he dies, she ii 1utter out his memoirs with all the
persihage in his early correspondence. with the
Executive double loaded evidence in her breach
of ambition suit. l declare l don't what the
President can do to checkmate that woman But,
turning card just handed him by page for the
groups inspection, he finished, He might marry
her to Roderique"
7 STARTED up the way Amos used to come out
of his nap in church when the Hopeville fifty"
do you think, Eta? There Lady Wilhemina
Franklin turned red as her hat, and looking as if
while the Baroness was giving her full face sitting
of mischevous boy smile. Beulah Rural had
thought she was caught out the mb-and they
didn't even seem to reckon on her presence in the
orchard!
so you don't think that was funny joke, Lady
Billy" asked the Baroness soicitously.
The laugh that answered her genuine. Il
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Young woman whose stained automobile coat but
toned down tight made the frills on the bottom of
her crimson frock underneath stand out almost YER
tically like inverted morning glory. heavily
pu11ed hat had shipped its moorings and blown
over one She seemed to carry breeze with her.
nall" She saluted Cant you cut the kiddie for
little and let teach you how to fly? The new
machines wonder you know. n.y.,
The Baroness called the attention OF Lady VIII
helmina FRANKLIN to my existence
But there'n soon be another Chancellor at the
Embassy. You'll miss my merry. chatter then,
you know" she continued, addressing herself per-
suasive1y to the Baroness though she was strlding
across the room toward my chair She took her
hands her S sS long
Bully little kddie, l should say; isn't he,
though, Mrs. Rural? she said
The old German nurse seemed FESTIVE;
Then Lady Welhelmina moved off to the fireplace,
where she stood putting vigorously on cigarette
the Baroness had offered her. Then arose syn
thetic odor of smoke and gasolene. and the Irish
put up my back at women smoking, Eta, for you
know my great-great, grandmother was found dead,
bolt upright on the chimney corner SETTLE with her
corncob pipe between her teeth.
The Baroness drew slowly on her cigarette and
blew rings dreamily so you're to be transferred,
sae hs5 Lady
1.-The Ambassadors doesn't like my clothes, and
this Capital of the Free doesn't like my tongue;
home office with items about my barbed wire cpl
know. for we're 60 to Brazil. But Winships such
a silly! He feels he has EN-"
Another gentle specimen of the genus wife in
Discreet the Baroness slipped in, nodding at me.
"Oh, come now! haven't done much to offend
the middle class squeamishness here" pro-
tested the injured innocent from the hearth rug;
but she didn't able to thrust the remark out
of sight in her coat pockets with her hands, and
she went in rather Hurried way:
" You see, Mrs. Rural there is nothing you people
in the States apply your protection principles to
quite inconsistently as the joke schedule. You
give preferential tariff to Irish Importation and
the product is always stale when it arrives. You
actually smugge in Teutonic qups that have as
ambitious a spark as a waterlogged hrecracker.
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and cherish them apparently for the Pharisaical
indulgence of hearing them siss beside your up
roarious pleasantries but all sense of humor from
my tight little island is debarred And the worst
of it is you give US to understand that there IS
demand for jokes of all brands large sizes preferred,
and then you won't let deliver. The people who
came to my house and solicited fun at the expense
of the other factions of officiadon, are going
about reporting my attempts at Righteousness as
concealed weapon offenses. And, oh, this morn
ing, in bookshop came upon my Journal in NADIA
arrival, placarded, Lady Wihelmina Franklyn re-
duced from two seventy-hve to ninetyeight cents
Oh, that these dear people could appreciate their
unconscious achievements in humor!',
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" Very good SIDE.
tracking, Lady Bill
1y," smiled the Bar,
oness;; but let's turn
the train around. l
heard an American
joke the other night,
and l wonder wheth-
er you can apprecl-
ate it. Some Sena-
tors in the Marble
room were discuss
ing the serious ILL
ness of a certain
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CSS lCilldi hCt vi
tiny Jean Michel
There was an open
FIRE. l have not
seen anything
more emblematic
of the household
hearth than a gas
log since coming to
Washington; and
the room was hung
in old rose, and
there was that
soft little shape to
snuggle.
T FELT this was
L to be my hour
of pure joy. But
there came a swirl
up the stairway,
like dead leaves
before the wind, ::
sound like a log
bouncing through
more dead caves
along the hall, and
there stood in the
doorway a tall
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ooh, no, that's not it, replied her father;
"albinos are born so. He is as likely to be
young as old
posed Ed Il should like to see the bird
whether we get him or not
'All right / assented; well stir up the
crows far and near, and perhaps we may
come upon him somewhere. | would creep
ooh, You boys!'' cried Cecilia, laughing.
Going to look for white crow! For mer-
cy's sake, don't tell any one. Probably it's
somebody's, white hen that has got lost IN
sThats girls notion" replied Ed, "a
white henl Well, if she has been and got
naturalzed among the crows, she must De
worth getting as a curiosity. I GU Just te nS
to your dolls and things, Miss Cecilia VI
colt"
"Why didn't Amos shoot it?,". asked
@That makes me think, replied Ed He
said that to shoot a white crow would bring
bad luck-somebody would die after ",
think it a bad omen to kill a white deer.
| don't know how it would be with white
crow ,,
'sAmos says resumed Ed, that he read
story once telling how man nsrt k n;ght I be
woke up to see its ghost sitting on one OF
tbe posts at the foot Of his bed, saying cav,
casaw, ca-a-aw!' in a dreadfully weak voice,
and how it scared the gunner almost 10 ueatIi,
50 that he was never the same man again"
well" laughed Cecilia, You boys ys, have We
MT anything to fear ;,i in that .a way don't BE-
nothing Of white one Only the other DAY az
Get az flock out by the oat stacks; and
away up in the top of great tree. chuck
ling to himself to see you crawl; AT last,
very leisurely, he said cav, caw!' and they
all flew off,. moclSing you as hard as they
could. That's the way you hunt.
But Cecilia was so merry and whole-heart-
ed that we could bear her raillery with good
grace.
The next day being Saturday, so that there
was no school, we devoted it wholly TO.
search for the white crow, but all in vain.
streaming along over the woods and fields in
their irregular, zigzag fashion, but not a
white feather was anywhere to be seen
among them; and so we returned hungry and
weary. with only half-dozen quails and
partridge to show for our long tramp.
From this time, however, all the. youngsters
in the neighborhood were on the lookout
for the strange specimen, and it was not
long before one or two of them claimed to
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have seen it, though not near enough for a
successful shot.
An old farmer, too, had got sight of it,
so that altogether there could no longer be
any doubt as to the truth of what Amos
Barnes had reported. But Ed and /, though
we spent several Saturdays in the search.
seemed never to be in the right place at the
right time.
us single glimpse Of the albino; yet this,
in rough and heavily wooded country, was
not remarkable.
The great fiocks of crows had range of
miles upon miles ever hill and forest, and
thus any particular individual whether white
or black, became small object to look for.
Occasionally he was seen by hunters or
others, and the schooboys were full of wild
stories of accidents which had happened TO
people at the very moment they seemed
about to secure him.
One man, it was said, just as his finger
touched the trigger for fair shot, had been
soused into a deep pond by the sudden break
ing, OF the ice under his feet, losing his gun
and barely escaping with his life.
Another was sadly injured by the bursting
OF his breech.loader as he fred at the snow
white bird, which, with its sable companions,
went happlng away unframed, the whole
flock squalling out, 'There, mani there man!
there, manN' just as if they knew what had
happened to their enemy and were glad of it.
After this, it was plain to see that very
few OF the boys would have improved the
opportunity, for a point-blank shot, had It
been offered
True, they did not believe in witcheraft.
On. no! But then, their eyes, would become
very large and round, as they talked the
matter over with each other.
So the winter passed into spring, and bv
planting time, the white crow was almost
forgotten.
1t was good while since he had been
heard Of and we thought that perhaps he
had migrated farther north.
When the oat fields had become green and
the new corn had begun to peep out Of the
ground, the dark focks mustered about the
edges Of the fields, as if rejoicing in the pro-
spect of change of diet.
They soon discovered that the planted corn,
having been soaked in tar-water, was very
little to. their taste; but this objection did
not apply to the oats, and to these they did
ample justice, walking over them in stately
ranks and pulling up the tender shoots with
their strong bills.
We tried hard to ambush them, but they
displayed surprising amount of general
ship.
Their pickets were thrown out. upon all
sides, and there was no commanding tree
near the field which had not its sentinel.