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I *ant yon to go uni and hnn' my tittle Maik eat It har Htray •4 .a ay and I am mm h worried about lr Mara la • pt«« of randy to rat on your way. and don t fall and Adi your Arena The quean an»ke more kindly than lino.! and tried to .mile a little, hut ‘ a —.« ~ ' Z STf % F ELD^ COPYBICHT. 1898, B> THE A(J T HOR~g/^iff 1 suppose that if Mi?!* All*** Walton were leaving my employ In ordinary circumstance* I should write her a let* ter of recommendation. What should I Bay In It? How should I best testify my appreciation of her services? I couldn't say she was a good stenog rapher, for she wasn't. J should have to admit that sha, could get as many extraordinary errors Into a letter as any typewriter could hope to do. As for business Judgment In the management of my ofllne. 1 am afraid that honestly I couldn't praise her highly. Perhaps the best way would be to tell the exact truth about her coming, her work with me and her severance of the connec tion. She came in answer to an advertise ment In a newspaper. J remember that my first Impression was that she would b>* a pleasant person to have In the of fice She was a sweet faced girl, obvi ously well bred and neither overanx ious nor lacking In Interest as she talk ed with me about the prospective em ployment. . She confessed writ! the most cheerful frankness that she had had no experi ence in actual work, but had learned stenography from a book and typewrit ing with a borrowed instrument. My advertisement had demanded In the rr st explicit terms an experienced per son, but this did not appear to trouble Miss Waltop. Hhe set it aside with a smile, as if It were a trivial detail. 1 dictated a business letter of about 200 words to her, and she managed to take it down, but I observed that she supplemented the usual stenographic symbols with long hand abbreviations of h most unique appearance. However, she wrote the letter neatly upon the typewriter, and after a glance ai it I agreed to give her a week's tr.al. When she had left the office. I looked at the letter again and discovered that Miss Walton had omitted Ihe one salient sentence which made the communica tion intelligible. Had it been an ac tual message I think my correspondent would have been at a loss to know why I had addressed him at all. This was rather dhtcouraghlg. I drew il;.*r Walton’s attention .tv her error ! «Ae *a* an .niat'U'M to a * ataag that m •«* rat.Am h»**Mt*ag «Aa* iraai'M ■ tag la Ike DHIo gut »*A»W akat hm> mm *4 l Aa gaatra aa NhM aa aA* ooftM haw tea that Am .♦»»' wamtAa* kawkf pmmmm Am »«a*A| A mm 4M ami «A*t Ami AMAag •« aAaw *Ao 4M And AaMra «a<u Mm A*4 hmmAM tko gate that Am AM a«A A»*A aA*t« I amt *aa at Aar tmmrn tAA-a aAr aa# AMk ana aIMM|M*4 la gat k*«a mm the i ha< h aa4 lA* Amoitrw >o»« as r«ad» • AAA tmm ICagda tier AM l>o. AM Iniguail l-ft. Art hand aa4 Mt« tna» taa rtftaa. • Aaaa «A. <aaa I »rrftft4 la ara a Ift-ft tara * liWalhg aanga iaa< otMfUt i 4a*ted a *»t lUrawf k tk# |»a dTft- 'lAftft ttfdcAaaf* Awning a gaar ! ..at Ahum a lark At fAa **m AM» It a | a tad th»A* gag tdil «at tfcat eaact n Mia < hiAtaAd II ft a* .a* Aaated . . »wd« add Oowkl kata rAaftged taa at •Mtao tala a *Aah* l<ftt ataataalAa* >• a • Ak44 ftM «»Mrk. aa4 at Uda eery •wttMia ak» kMA> At tka aft'*" AmgAta* —ff V •S»4 iKrf itfi Alt AMilMl Ml • >•»*' to ««'i h*>r and ib*r»- i» i»*»vfr a» \Vrv Mtilr Prim**** *'hr t* lat»H on. h*r littl* df« at pli* ram** to th* #*•!*«► of A Ink*, Whr ail very thirsty, to *h«* knelt |, mn N n«| took n drink. It «ai . wh-*n she reported for duty the next morning. and she blamed herself heart ily, but she wan not at all depressed. • | am so glad." said she. "that It wasn't a real letter." I regret to state that several mistakes of equal magnitude crept into real let ters within the week. It became pain fully obvious that Miss Walton was not a stenographer and that her knowledge of business entitled her to rank next below David ftopperfield's Dora I de cided that Miss Walton and I should probably part In the near future. My business at thats Mme was In a very critical condition, and f was cor respondingly depressed. Indeed there was an atmosphere of gloom over all my little establishment. My office l>oy and mailing clerk fitted nicely into the general woe. Two more melancholy youths were never thrown together by the chances of this life. Harry Baldwin of King & Baldwin, a firm tn whose debt I had been from the beginning of my career, used to call my boys the “blue devils," and he advised me to get rid of them in the interests of cheerful ness. Baldwin himself was a handsome, manly, cheerful fellow, always well dressed and with a pocket full of money. We could have been great friends but for this infernal yellow microbe of mon ey. And, as to that, Baldwin had done everything that I could reasonably ask and more, but the time was coming when he would have to take some deci sive action, and that meant ruin to me. Baldwin came in to sec me early one morning shortly after I had engag d Miss Walton to work for me. That young lady had not arrived, though It was time for her to come, and Baldwin and I had the inner office to ourselves. I hope I may never go through another quarter of an hour like that one. These cheerful fellow's are the worst of all when they really get serious. Baldwin felt badly for me, there's no duiibt of it, but he had made up his mind what to do. and nothing could shake him. We talked it over till the gloom was posi tively solid in the room. ■lust, then Mies Walton came in. 1 had ipeutioped her failure to Baldwin THE A.XJGhTJSTA. SUNDAY HERA.LD. n D>im. tii* |wmi ■»— «M •* »»—< **M MM *"*A »** *»«•» «** **# •ft* <M* Ml WHO** lIMM *■«* HI IA» I'lM* *f M» MA* **♦ •AM mmmrn *•**•««* m*M •*■* mm M A MMHMH* • A**» pM* f»M» AM IM ***** mm **# A* AM H*H «m* TA* WM* #«♦» *« <**•* <* tA*MM M» <MI »* ffcM M* MM At HA *1 **M *•*• •*•**» HAl*» A*t t»H* •a* «*» twi IM«* Mm *•■*« Ihm mm MM fca*M ll AA» IMA* ‘')Ml *• Ml • IWM* AM MW* .MMHWI*. I*.i*iMW *f AM* »■*«! '* IM* As** Ijpn Hhfii rs HHrii Iff: HMNifllk •** & HA* MAArai* M Ham »•» A"* ***»• Ela&-*±-i TIIK TRIP TO Tlir. lAUkNn. •It us | little Princes* t'hnslnbei' I and the door was thrown open. The most beautiful big White cat. with round, blue eyes and silky fur. ntood la- : * . .» f Irtn M Irtiiki d wtuTsome attention when she appeared. ~fn very late." She said, "but I real , ly couldn't help It. I've had a little ac cident." She turned her right side toward me. ) and I saw that the sleeve of her dress had been torn from the shoulder and j ripped in the seams It was Ingeniously fastened with pins • I Wanton a trolley ear." she contin ued. "and It ran into a great wagon loaded with Iron. We were thrown around like dice In a box. and my arm was caught In one of the seats as I plunged forward, hut not a single pas senger In the car was hurt except me. Wasn't that lucky?" This view struck Baldwin and me as somewhat original, and we both laugh ed at the Idea of the only victim ap plauding fate. 1 asked Miss Walton bow much injury she had sustained, and She said, with a little laugh that 1 she guessed her arm would la* black i and blue. She ridiculed the idea of hav ing a doctor look al II or of allowing It I to Interfere in any way with her work, and she used, In speaking of her mis haps, such comical expressions that In twro minutes we were all laughing to gether. ‘ Do you mean to tell me that you re i going to let that girl go?'' whispered Baldwin to me When Miss Walton had ! begun to work upon some letters left j over from the day before. "Why, her nerve alone is worth her salary! "I shan’t have anything left to pay } her salary with.” I replied, with the ghost of a smile. "Oh. brace up!” said he. "Book at the thing a little more cheerfully. Take a leaf out of her hook." and he nodded toward Miss Walton. ' Til tell you wh„t I'll do." he continued, Hnd then, to my surprise, he outlined u plan of settle ment so liberal and y< t so shrewdly businesslike that It made m" gasp. He confessed to me long afterward that it was a sudden inspiration and thnt he had never before seen thnt way out of the difficulty. To me It was like a plank to a drowning man. He took a corner of my desk and be gan to set down the terms of our agree ment with great particularity. While he was thus engaged Miss Walton handed me (he letters upon which she had been at work. They were even worse than the average. I passed one of them to Baldwin tvhen he looked up from his task for a minute. It contain ed the extraordinary statement to a possible customer that he could get the goods anywhere In the market at prices under those that I had quoted. The omission of a negative had made con siderable difference in the meaning. Baldwin looked almost sad ua he re turned the letter to me. “Miss Walton,” said he, "If J dictate something to you can you take it on the machine?” 3he looked over her shoulder with a sunny smile and replied that she should be delighted to oblige him. Accordingly he began to dictate from his memwsn 'Am MAA* Amm* a Ad* t gM raft •*»* ’ tAMg *d •AA*’ AdA*d tie klAd. 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I I tana* Ininl- n owe said la a l»l that ike queefta fare ft a. into enough in jftiur rye am ta Arr |»« het aaa ■ .liter | .ate »Mh the quern * lihenqaa 'ft it. ftho-h her father Aa<t given bet t*>- day j of*re freak from the mint, HA i- k A •*ut u t her »«■ h* t and < art It Mr Into . in< »»ter. leatantly the t* l*k began to work and tftftlle. and in a ohoit time a thlth, hard niiat had format! on th. tug . Whatever hare you 'loin- In my • ream, childT' railed the *ftt. running goon the Uatftee »te|o Hut you mutt erruar me. I emell a rat atrongar than eier," and *he dailed arrow the hard *urf«t-e of tlte lake The urine*«» folloft- : etl her aa faat aa ahe * ould hut falle-l lo | even boe|> her In Might. HA «aa a tong j time getting out of the foreat. and ft heg j ahe did rew h h*y fnther'a luilaie ahr miw the fieuide running to and fro In , great mem motion. HA ft a. afraid to . go on for fear her atepmother »a* • ■hntlt and aat down on a rack V> watch j ' slower and more awkward with the ma chine than I had ever before known her tb lie. and I watched her with that painful senaation that one feels when an amateur musician ta "doing his l«e»t." Suddenly I saw her away In the chair. I leapial tn my feet, but Baldwin was quicker, lie i aught her Just as she would have fallen. "Jack." said he to me, with deadly calm, "we are fools and brutes We have let this child torture herself before our eyes." As for myself. I was speechless. Bharne choked me. Send one of Ihe blue devils' for a doctor!" he cried. "Oh. how perfectly funny!" said Miss Walton, and eh. laughed feebly "it's an awful name for them, but It suits them S" mueh better than anything they can possibly have been christened =p| Hr 4 ill -'mi?* C' : ■ HE CAUGHT HEH JUST AS SHE WOULD HAVE FALLEN. 1 will do the particular 'blue devil" who was assigned to this mission the Justice to say that he performed It with exemplary celerity. He brought a doc tor from a nearby drug store—which boasted of a real one—ln next to no time at all, but Miss Walton was quite recov ered when he arrived. He insisted on- having a look at her arm, however, and she hared it for him ! much more easily-iliuu she might other wise have done sine; the sleeve de tached Itself on the removal of a few pins. She was kind enough to say that Baldwin and X lpijed not go away, and so we saw the roundest and most per- : feet arm in the: world, with a cruel bruise all along Gif side of It. He look ed at me and f ret him, and we silently voted ourselves beyond pardon. f oai wad «k»A* At IhA AMAi AAA* i ta A* AMAt tAt.li AM* Mta a* w A AA Ml **'*»*» I iiMMAg ia Aar rnmrn twft mm*mm a i .Mr mAt AM had* IA a ywak-d >«A and I a AAM Mi MACA ok. »*a taMHtg WMf «aeftaa.tr «• tWrtMaAMa talk.* th tn.ee «Aa tauaad tka aid tadr mm tdk. *AWta mm tka gatA akd tk# tmm »Aa M i IMAM,' 1 I »A» »AAA A# kAf rr Mi tka a AM. «ai »T*ft war ga Aftgw amm. Alt*, yagg* j *aga •' AAM tke Mi hkdy •Auta Aar fa» j iam imimoM aa Am fairy g litwniA* j at. ft Am Aad »m|i.«M aarwrwl ***** i Anfiuo ma mg ta tka »w* A.ataftft' «ftM j .aft AM b» tka ft ft Aad ft it- A »Am bad . niai. taira *et ta tka okayw *d a oftw ftMMaA tft ftlft A. got ta Aa qufteft aftd \ ibtra da AaMW MMarAkd that HM> A AM* rwA gftMhM by AM rnm**m iftMlft-i Aad rwwkMl lA* tail ara, lA* Migguuk i. W*tA a mrtrnmm. kwrt j tanked HMo a Mg gray rat, Aar frft' NftJJji maw*i» *»»»« j “CocK-a-do<xJlt!” crowed a rooster, Standing on » fence; “CocK-a-doodle! CocK-a-doodle!” With a noise irnmense. “I’fD a say and festive fellow,” Was his daily sons* “With rny slossy neck and plumase, And rny tail so lons* "Cock-a-doodle! CocK-a-doodl*! Watch me when you can!” Over him a hawk came sailing ” How that rooster ran! ter fill Sit.; SjfJElLrt?'- •••'«::* - * *V^J**.U L- 1 sent Miss Walton home, though she i would willingly hate remained. She was back again next day. smiling and hap py with h**r arm so stiff that she • ould hardly move It. She Insisted upon doing some kind of work, however, so I let | her superintend the labors of the ''blue ( devils." who at the end of the day de served their name no longer, having hern totally unable to resist her Influ emw That Influence began to be felt in an ! oilier quarter before many days were over Baldwin, who acquired the habit I of dropping In as often a* he had in I old .'ays. said that the change In me was worth 15,980 a year In my business. ' Vou're not an undertaker, you know, old man” said he, "und people don't like to see you act like one. In times like these It's money In your pocket to look cheerful. It's an advertisement. It j makes you conspicuous.” Perhaps it was my letter spirits, or it may have he#n only ohmic***, l»u* At Any rat** my bunlneu began t<> Improve. I began to work more effl. iently. I liked 1.1 be In iny office and to be busy then-. Conditions presently were s<> much l better that I w'as able to engage "an mw& I r r-^ri assistant” for Miss Walton. I found a girl who' really knew something about stenography, typewriting and business, and then I advanced Miss Walton’s sal ary and made her head of the depart ment. Ii was more or less ■if a joke, bin Baldwin, who is a good business M»w> ««4 III* **» M **•»* * MM# a >awhi ftmm Hm* Hm lAM **•• MA A «mM A*** ImMM ll AM*M *• |M*4 A M M «• I l« »’** •»* M«*AA Mm* Imhh I •** •«* *M A«MHmI AA '** »M A» • P*» 111 IMAM* «A*< **# I#* MM* •* *•* •♦**»■* •**»* •*4 *m «HMI '»t «•**» l*M« AM W* • W AM MM* MM • «•**• 4* *A MAM* •*<«* “FA* MM HHM* • HMAI *WM H» IhmhA •» *A» l*M» A»'i*l*iMAM *A4 •*'«* • ***** *mt «r IMM *• lA* M* *«M a* ,AW lA*t *at A*M| HIM t*« M»n« a*** lfl«* Mil) tMt MlOlt «*. *MIMI IMHNMM Mill* An I ••*• Am** I* AM** *<M lA* amUma |AW» !■ n«»l» IMIA #MI WA*»* 4m «** iM* fMWtV MHM H><* AMI 4MI **A *«*• m ! HA* -• H**l ••** ■% W * #■# j • MM fun** Am* MM ***** man. appro* ed of It highly. I ■*»'*' great deal of him during the next eight or ten month*. an«l the reason aa» only i too obvious. He used to call at her ; house, too. and he told in*- some things I never would have learned from him She and her mother and little sister were the family, and they had not a penny except Alice's earnings. Th**> had lost all a few months hefore 1 first saw Alice, and on that day when the light of her unconquerable cheerfulnesa tirsl dawned upon me they were abso lutely without resources, even lacking the means for grttiug proper food. The picture makes me shudder. Suppose that I had sent her away upon the wea ry round of seeking for employment that she had traveled day after day In weariness and discouragement—no, not the last, for she was Ine.cpuble of It. I couldn’t hear to think of It. and there was another thought that pained me in those days. I felt that I must lose her. It wus easy to see that Bald win's affections were deeply engaged. Well. It would l» ii splendid match for her a rich, handsome, splendid fellow Ilk* Baldwin. I tried to lee| like u Chris tian alw.ut It. One day not long ago he came Into rny office early. Again, ns on that first day. Alice was late. _ "I've come to say gooilby. old man," said he. "I'm going abroad and may be gom—l don’t know bow long, years perhaps.” "In heaven's name." 1 cried, "what is the meaning of this'.’" Just then Alice came 111. .Baldwin turned toward her. bowed with the gen tlest deference imaginable nml then hastily left the loom. I closed the door after him. cutting on (lie Observation of the "ox-blue devils.” j Alice was" trembling as I turned to her. I "Has II gone so far'.’" I said. "Have i you really rejected this man? But it's 'none of my business. Don't suy any thing. The words were out of my mouth before I could stop them." "There is no use concealing it," said , she "I couldn’t anyway front you. I admire and respect Mr. Baldwin, but 1 i do not love him.” ■•your heart Is no longer your own!" 1 I cried, moved by something in her j voice. She smiled through tears at me, and then for the very first moment In our J acquaintance l had a gleam of hope. I said what was in my heart as well as I could, and she replied as I had no right ever to dream that such a woman could speak to me. Ho our relations are to be reversed. I am to serve her all the rest of our lives. Can I help her as she bus helped me? 1 am afraid it Is not In me, but I can try. But this is aside from the subject. I began to speak of Alls.-; Walton as u stenographer, typewriter and office as slstant. and as such I cannot recom mend her She can't write shorthand or use a typewriting machine, and, ae | for business or any other Judgment. 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T«g Mem take loteraated In tm, !b» yog ttnd that I ent all right r* • Y** Mr." aftki th* hoy. with . glamg ■ t Ho hl.hoft'a hnee hrwhe* "Tau'ra •ll tight only ibeMlallaalyi wont won't y«ur ntolh* » M you wear long trouaer* yelT* y-Mellty t* the Wntleea. Hie Mother i profoundly .bovltedl-ft Johnny. Johnny, y»u will break my hewrl' Thftt la lh»- nma» dreadful l«n* 1 gauge I ever In-aru a llttA Imy cm! Johnny—We're plwyln . treat • *r», rn.tnm*. I'm the niulorman. uu Hen* drlrln * coal w.gon nn won't get out o' >ny way! t llrftalltwn. UHh- Nil! - Johnny, whn: i* a philn*- u|>2i#r? Brother Jidinny ta Ulllt rlderi -A fr|. ii r that tide* n i»hl!o*o|*ed'. cf cour**. Then little Nell falnteo. SPEED AI WHICH INSECTS FLV. It if the popular liellef that the flight of birds la much nwlfter than that c*( Insects, but » number of naturmllota who have been making a study of tha ! matter think that such la not the vaae. A common house fly, for exampla. la not very rapid In Its flight, but Its wings make IM*I tn-ata a second and send It ihrough the air 25 feel under ordinary j circumstances In that space of time. When the Insect Is alarmed, however, ! it has le*cn found that it Increases Its | rat** of s|ieed to over 150 feet |»er sec ond. if it could continue such rapid flight for a mile tn ■ straight line, It would cover that distance In exactly 25 seconds—faster than an ordinary ex i press train. It Is not uu uncommon thing, when traveling h* rail In the summer time, j to Mi’#* M bee us wasp keeping up with iho train and Hilo* •'» g*t In at one of the windows. A swallow Is considered ,in>- of the sS* If test Hying birds, and It ! was thought until a Short time ago that 1 no innset ■ ould es* ape It. A naturalist tells of an exciting chase he saw be | tween a swallow and a dragon fly# I Which i« among tha swiftest of Insects. , The insect flew with incredible speed ' and wheeled und dodged with such case Ihnl tin*, swallow, doaplle its utmost ef forts, fulled to capture It, and tho i plucky Ily escaped. *r— ~—— —— * New Hind **f Blass. A Krcuyh plate glows factory hag placed lipfln the market "a new article of considerable Itricrest culled opaline. It Is a vitreous mass, absolutely free from : metals, acid proof, of a grayish blue opal color and resembles artificial Ice. Ii is cast and roiled into large plates of irom 85 to 100 square feet surface urea und from one-half lo one and a half inches thick. Large surfaces can be lined with a single plate without a joint. Besides Its incomparable hard ness, It possesses the immense advan tage over marble of being add proof and remaining perfectly spotless. Like faience and porcelain, it can lie decorat ed with Indestructible burned-ln colors. H Is produced usually from seven to nine sixteenlhs of an Inch in thickness. The plates have a smooth and rough surface, the latter to render adhesion to inortar more sure. For partition walls It is made smooth on both sides. —Got 'Km Again." The clergyman of a parish In the west of Kngland was noted for h n pomposity and fondness for the cup that Inebriates. On one occasion, meet lug (no sc '-.col boys, who were passing without the expected saiui*-. he stopped them and inquired if they knew who he was. 1 Yes,” replied one of the boys, "you are the vicar.” Then, turning to his companion, the boy exclaimed, "He's got 'em ugain und don c know who ha aral” ... _ . *.