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AUGUST 18. 1906.
THE SUNNY SOUTH
FIFTH <PAGE
Womens’ Suffrage Movement
Experiences Great Impulse the World Over
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M
AN may scoff, and refuse
to believe, but the faot
nevertheless remains that
the cause of woman suf
frage Is making Its way.
The battlo begun fifty
years ago Is steadily be
ing carried to success. It
^ was not the fortune of the
yJL^ great pioneer of the move-
ment, Susan B. Anthony,
_ to live to see the time
when every woman in the
a. . , United States should have
|he right to cast a vote at presidential
lections, but a generation from now «■«:
robnbly find this an accomplished fact.
Most persons have little Idea of the
etenrtv gain that Is being made bv the
woman's suffragists. It has become tha
masculine habit to dismiss the entire
ernsade lightly as a sort of a freak that
would soon run Its course, but a glance
at what has nctually been accomplished
how 3 a most astonishing gain.
In the United States thore are four)
commonwealths that grant full right of
suffrage to women without any restric
tion. In eighteen others they are al
lowed to vote on school Issue, and lr
two store the female tux payers nrs
given, the right to vote on all matters
pertaining to the expenditures from the
treasury, which they help to keep full.
SITS IN PARLIAMENT.
This Is a good showing for one coun
try, but there are others In which It
!s far outstripped. Take for Instates*
Finland. There a woman not only has
the right to voto Just the same as a
man. but she can also sit In parliament.
So In New- Zealand. Australia, Sweden,
‘ Norway and Iceland women are granted
liberal use of the ballot. an ( ] In Great
Britain,- for all Its reputation of con
servatism, a woman can vote at all elec
tions save those for members of parlia
ment.
The . International Council of Women
1 Is an agency of prime Importance in
I carrying on the propoganda. It meet*
once In every five years. I.ondon, in
1899. saw the first gathering; Beilin,
^ At Last ^
By EDITH C. M. DART.
m
Susan B. Antliony, One of the Great Pounders of the Cause.
tentlon. An American Quaker, Hannah
Whitehall Smith, is one of the prime fac
tors In the contest, and she occupies
a position very similar to that which
another Quaker. Susan B. Anthony, held
in this country for so long a time.
Mrs. Smith went to England shortly
after the war. Her husband dying
she remained there, one of her daugh
ters married a well known art critic;
the other is the wife of the Honorable
Bertrand Russell. Countess Russell lias
been a prominent worker in every move-
ln 1904, the second, and the third will be ! m ’nt of the fight 'for an unrestricted
hold in Canada In 1909. j ballot.
Thla conclave Is the occasion for tak- j It Is a somewhat curious fact that moil
ing an account of stock, for reporting j archies seem more willing to give women
plete equality with their husbands and
brothers.
CLERK OP SENATE.
A woman. Miss Lillie Pardee, elected
clerk of the Utah senate, signed the cre
dentials of the first senators the state
to Washington, a situation without prece
dent or succession u£> to this time.
This brief glance at the progress for
the woman's cause shows a most aston
ishing change of public sentiment from
the days when Susan B. Anthony first
took up the battle.
She preached the doctrine and was
reviled and caricatured even by members
of her own sex. She insisted on her
right to vote, oast a ballot, was arrested
ARBARA WARING had
practically learned and
mastered the difficult art
of being poor when Fate
presented her whimsically
with abundance. Every
body, even she. felt It to
be more or less a fantas
tic happening.
She wondered at first
what she was going to do
with It all; that was be
fore she had learned that,
along with a fortune. Fate
always bestows methods for ltg disposal
—sudden and unknown acts of duty, fam
ily claims that had only been sleeping
dogs until their opportunity awoke them
to b^rk. She found out also that a great
deal of money may be expended upon
the getting of simple things, if such hap
pen, moreover, not to be the simple
things for which others ask.
With a sort of gasping relief she ran
off to the sea, to a household of merry,
affectionate. noisy creatures she had
once schooled and loved. They made
much of her In their own breezy fashion,
quite unaffected by her change of cir
cumstances except that It gave BUCh an
unfailing excuse for teasing.
She was discovering among them that
the girl In herself was not so much
crushed and dead as neglected. She kept
cropping up and asserting herself In the
most unlooked-for daily' fashion.
"You are getting prettier and younger
every day’, Mother Bab,” one of the
dies, mandolin, guitar and stage proper
ties. “We shall toe back at 10.”
“It's really 'too bad to >troop off and
leave you "
"Good-by, good-by!"
Without a word to one another the
two left moved away. Barbara went
upstairs to tho drawing room, its many
windows open to the sea' that entered
like a song. She did not attempt to
play for some time, but sat In the peace
of the deserted room listening, fearing a
step on the stairs. Mme came. He was
smoking, after all, downstairs in his
own room. She need not imagine her
music was inducement to bring him here,
she told herself, yet, Just for tonight,
the very last night—. She started. Ed
ward was standing In the doorway. He
stood watching her with that same
strange flicker in his sober ey’es. He
crossed the room and sat opposite her,
still silent and smiling.
“Shall I play? What would you like?”
She did not wait for his answer, but
began. The man, listentng, knew that it
was liis presence. Ills obvious presence,
that kept the magic out of her melody.
He gave a grim attention to it for a few
moments, then got up and went into the
Inner room. She thought he had gone,
and a faint current of something mys
terious crept into her music; it relieved
her, soothed the unrest of her mood,
flowed with a momentary healing over
her Jarred spirit.
As she ceased a servant entered with
a telegram. She was looking at it un
opened when he came back. She knew
escape was too late.
“Come outside. You have had enough
bills; one each apiece, an’
one each apiece private.
’Ope it's money, an' I
might 'ave a chance o' get-
tin' my wages. Thcr
money box in this 'ouse
seems ter be as hempty
as ther larder.”
And Miss Polly Smutts.
general servant to Mr. and
Lovedgy, Paradise
Mrs.
girls exclaimed, watching a little excite- | music.
ment ruffle the quietness of her gray j “You nnjfcn y r ou have,” she corrected,
, , , „ , i - . . for the acf, and sentenced |t> pav a fine
just what progress has been made, and some measure ot powr at the ipoils than , ’ ,,
. . _ I . for illegal voting. She never paid the
for planning the efforts of the next five! 410 republics. Thus the only two coun-
yrars. .tries In Europe where women have ab-
Delj»Tates all over the world are no v j s °hitely no legal rights are France and
working so that the 1909 conference j ^ w ** zer * an ^- at '^ both of these are re
may show big advance*. 1 P ut, Hcs.
Even far off China has been reached,
and at the next conclave a represen
tative will sit ifrom the Flowery King-
COUNTESS RUSSELL,
Great English Woman Suffrage
Advocate.
dom. A Japanese council of women Is
now being formed, and it will have a
member at the next session.
Those countries where women have
moderate recognition are striving for
more, as for instance in Great Britain.
Sweden and Norway, where women are
allowed to vote at every election save
those for the choice of members of par
liament. It Is hoped by 1908 to have
done away with even these barriers.
Holland Is now the center of one of
the strongest fights being made in the
cause, and no less a "person than Queen
Wilhelmina herselif is adding a voice for
full recognition of her sex. The min
istry is engaged In revising tho consti
tution, which having been framed a long
while ago stands In need of some Im
provement to keep pace with modern
times.
Quick to take advantage of an op
portunity the women of Wllhelmlna’e
realm submitted their request for euf-
fr.-i.ge, accompanying It with detailed In
formation as to the excellent result that
haa been attained In every place Where
women have been granted a ehere In the
government.
The plea made a deep hnpreaslon oo
tho ministry, and ft It probable that the j
new Instrument of government will go
far toward abolishing undoubted abuses
that exist in the way the state treats
its women.
In their plea tha Dutch women In
stanced Tasmania as a Una example of
the use their eex makes of the ballot, j
Although it was the first election ever
held under the system, almost fifty
per cent of the nawly qualified women j
cast their ballots, and they voted so In
telligent! y that the new state assembly
is admittedly the best body of lawmak
ers Tasmania ha* ever had.
EMBARRASSED BRITISHERS.
The woman's suffrage fight In England
Is causing the ministry no little loss of
eleep. In faot It may be said accur
ately that no public measure in Great
Britain today Is stirring up more oour
Th© United States has been much more
progressive in its treatment of the fe
male half of the population.
A woman can exercise every franchise
right of a man in Idaho, Utah, Wyoming
land Colorado—there is absolutely n o dis
tinction. Wyoming 1 was the first to grant
the privilege, which it did in 1890. when
the territory was admitted as a state.
Fox a time the best women of the new
state served on Juries, but lately this
I practice has been somewhat disrontin-
I nod. m many iparts of the state women
| hold important offices, and discharge
I their duties with fidelity and enterprise.
IN COLORADO.
Colorado extended tho right of suffrage
to women in 1893. In that common-
| wealth the place of superintendent of
I public instruction is conceded by the poli-
j ticlans to tho women us one that can
j best be administered by a mother, anil
| tlie wise administration of several wo-
J men hns greatly advanced the standard
' of the school system.
) Ten women have toecn elected to the
I Colorado legislature since man granted
j tho fair sex right to vote, tout no more
: than three have ever been members at
j one time. None of those cbosen has
. failed to do good work, and some worthy
j bills are on the statute books because
j women legislators were able to deal with
I [problems that had baffled man's skill
, to remedy.
! Idaho gave its women the right to cast
the ballot in 1896, and they were not
slow to avail themselves of it, ono. Mrs.
T. B. Jeffers, riding 60 miles on horse
back to her old home in order to have
her voto registered.
Three women were elected to the legis
lature, and one of these in the midst of
an important session, was called upon to
act as chairman of the house committee
of the whole. She discharged her task
with a success that won the praise of
memehrs of all parties.
Many counties in these western states
have elected women treasurers with the
outcome that tho public money has been
expended with much Increased regard
for that commandment which places the
ban on stealing.
Utah, while still a territory, had given
women a right to vote as far back as
1870, but this was withdrawn by the
Erkman-Tucker act of 1887. When Utah
came In as a state, it insisted on having
the women suffrage provision firmly
established In its constitution, and today
the women of that state stand on a corn-
money, blit the condemnation stands
against her on the records to this day.
All the advance has been accomplished
by agitators who had no vote to start
with, but could only get a hearing
through winning male electors to their
cause.
When the wonders of the last fify years
eyes and flush her smooth cheek. "Isn't
she. Isn't she, Edward?” the girl cried
merrily. The man’s watching eyes had
a sudden spark of something new and
strange. Barbara drew a blind of blank
forbidding over the youth lr. her own.
Her cheeks flamed, not with the blush
of mere reproof, but something fiercer.
The man saw it, and began to talk in
stantly with much detail of something
else. Sho thanked him for it secretly,
but with that barb Implanted by the
careless school girl hand rankling.
It was so long that a man had looked
at her with that flash in his eyes, the
brief admiration of the moment as she
called it to herself. She thought she
could meet it calmly enough now, yet the
old savage throb had leaped In response
to thajt look.
When she was twenty site met a man
obviously attracted by herself, not by
any of her attributes—music, deftness,
or mental quickness of perception—but
by herself. For the first time her wishes
were antioijrated, her lightest words re
membered and quoted, her tastes studied,
in that old and sure fashion never to be
set aside or Improved upon, in the primi
tive pleasure of a wooer. She opened
out. like a flower to the sun. until tho
blow fell. He was not in earnest; it
was a summer's amusement, no more!
The realization came crashing across her
life, destroying not alone her hope but
some faith in herself. What really mat
tered was not so much the loss of a
lover as the loss of her self.
She emerged front the silent conflict
altered only to herself. She had killed
that part of her nature, she told herself
somewhat grandiosely, and certainly the
corpse had shown no sign of life until
this afternoon, when a girl's nonsense
drew that flash fi*ont a man's eye. and
that instinctive cruel response from her-
trylng to talk lightly.
“You sometimes make a mistake about
me,” lie said abruptly.
There were winding steps that led
front the drawing room window to the
garden. He followed her, going carefully,
to escape her trailing gown.
There was a sort of rampart at one
end with a low sandstone bench that
overlooked the sea.
The air was full of soft sounds and
scents. He could only just see her face,
and the soft sweep of cheek that gave
distinction to her profile. A little fold
of her gown trailed acres® the bench
as they sat. He took it between his
fingers. “I like your shadowy black
frocks. I don’t like women, as a rule, in
black gowns. This is like twilight, fine
and (frail. Is that why you chose it, Bar
bara ?’'
For the first time he called her by her
name. She wag dumb. There was pierc
ing swiftly through her distaste and fear
something stronger. He tried to see her
face in the gloom.
From sheer incapacity tp finesse he
took the one course that convinced—the
direct ono.
“I want you,” he said. “It's not the
way to >put it; men don't say it bluntly
like that—men who know how to woo. I
never did. never tried, or wanted to be
fore. I urn too old to learn the rules of
the difficult game. I only sppeat I want
you. Does it seem enough?"
He took her trembling hands.
"1 want you to marry me. After all,
it’s what they come to In the end. thosu
pretty tricks and speeches, those by
ways I can't learn. Let it bring me near
you.”
"But if I can’t?’’
There was an edge, half malice, half
unconcealed content, in her voice.
You must! I’ll have to try and learn
the other fellows' methods if you won't
The Broker’s Man "F
OUR letters this momin’—. And Geoffrey, throwing hJs arms
two fer missus an' two fer I around the newcomer, kissed her not
marster. Them two is | once - hut twice.
"Geoffrey! How dare you!”
“Why, what's the matter, Phyll? If
a man can't kiss his wife's aunt, whose
wife’s can he kiss?"
■‘\Ahy, bless him, of course he can kiss
me, and a bonny lad he is, too. There,
my dear, fake that, and that.”
'Oh, I can't stand this! Auntie, dear,
won't you come and take your things
off and rest a little?”
"Certainly, my dear. Well, I am
proud of my nephew. Au revolr, love;
I will be down in a minute.”
She kissed her hand at the door, until
Phyllis, with a vicious shove, pushed her
out.
“By Jove! Fancy the old girl turning
up at the same time as the broker's
man! I must be off now and find that
money. Halloa! here’s tliat old incu
bus."
The red-faced man entered the room,
and Geoffrey seized him by the shoulders
and pushed him into a chair.
“Now, you sit there, you human vul
ture, and" if you dare tell anybody that
your is not Adam Black, I'll—I’ll squelch
you.”
As Geoffrey bounced out of the room
pityfully.
the red-faced man looked after him
“Nice lunatic asylum this is! My name
being Adam Black, why should I deny
it? I’ve tried to explain, but he won't
let me say a word. There’s something
wrong somewhere. Halloa! who's this?
Another lunatic?"
The door opened and the elderly fe
male who had gone upstairs with Phyi-
lis entered. Adam Black looked at her
with surprise.
"What? Sophonistoa!”
"Adam! Well, thank goodness, there
being in this house. But
doing here?"
to my nephew, Geoffrey
Villa, busied herself in putting the fin
ishing touches to the breakfast table,
just as Mrs. Lovedav entered the room'
“Good morning, Polly; breakfast
ready?”
“Yes'm; such as it is. It don't take
long ter cook brekfus’ in this 'ouse. Tea
an toas' an' tea, wiv a hoccasional halg,
or a 'igh-dried red 'ering fer a change.
1 wo letters fer you'ni.”
I thank you, Polly. Now run away
and bring tup the tea. Two letters; oh,
Isba de l °‘ itfu! ~ onc irom Aunt Sophon-
"•My Dear Niece—I crossed over fro*:
New York last week, and will come u.p
to London and spend a few days with
you, arriving about 10 o’clocck. All news
when we meet. I am dying to see what
you are like; you Were onlv a baby when
I saw you last in England. Your lovin'’
aunt. SPOHONESBA SKilNXER.”
How kind of her; I do hope she will
like me, vfor she is very, very rich, while
I— Oh! good gracious what is th
"Mme. Aurelie t'or the tenth time begs i is . °” e ” 1 bei .
' inclose her account, amounting to £27 are .
5s 3 3-4d. Mme. Aurelie’s assistant T Paying a visit
will call upon Mrs. Loveday tomorrow at : ,. v . e , J '..
10 o'clock, with instructions not to leave - . , r,
Mrs. Loveday’s premises without tho i Loveday.
^ ^ visiting my niece, Phyllis
tveday s premises mLnuui iuc , ,, _ . ,
money" Lor! Fancy your niece and my
"Oh,'what shall I do? Geoffrey knows I ae ,P he ;W being^ man and wife! Have you
nothing of this bill, and I know he is'
self.
Edward Banks was an elder son of come to me liko this!
the house by another marriage. He was J She shuddered, and for an Instant, ir
the Inexplicable ebb and flow of emo-
MRS SABAH PLATT DECKER,
An American Leader.
are summed up. the bloodless revolu
tion effected ' ■ women like MLiss Antho
ny, Miss Estcile Reel, Mrs. Sarah Deck
er and the Countess Russell will not be
lost sight of.
of
THOSE GOOD OLD TIMES.
(Front The Chicago News.)
“Treatment accorded to prisoners
war in the early part of the nineteeth
century would not be endured for a mo
ment in the twentieth century," says an
English writer. “To say that we starved
them of necessaries is a fact. French
prisoners were kept in durance on board
hulks at Portsmouth and Bishops Walth
am. Cases are on record of the dogs
of British officers paying a call on hoard
being decoyed below, where they were
killed and converted into cutlets, while
tho masters were chatting on the deck.
Rats In the hold were fished for with
hooks baited with ration beef, and. when
caught and cooked, were eagerly de
voured. Tho French prisoners to kill
monotony gambled.; the counters were
rations One mau at JRoehester lost his
rations for eight days running and died
of starvation.”
An English court has sentenced a wo
man to imprisonment because she re
fused to speak during a trial. The old
penalty for remaining mute under similar
conditions was being pressed to death.
The form of sentence set forth "the I and out of the oriel window at the eve-
removed by age and a certain differ
ence, not so much age as a change of
mental outlook, from the merry, pleasure-
loving throng of half-brothers and sisters,
whom he secretly protected from them
selves at every turn. There was noth
ing superior in Ills attitude. “Old Ted "
was looked up to laughingly, yet with
much earnestness underneath the fun,
as mingling in himself the Joint roles of
an autocrat and a most susceptible chan
cellor of exchequer. He was Inevitably
the arbiter of family destinies in his
quiet, conclusive way of decision.
Barbara stepped into the family atti
tude straightway. Oddly enough. al
though her years and his own tallied,
she regarded him much as his young
sisters did, to his own amusement at
first. Lately a vaguo doubt crept In. It
was never expressly defined, not even
when his flashing eyes set her pulses
dancing on the summer afternoon when
they sat looking at the blue waters of
tho bay beyond the tamarisk bushes at
the garden's end.
She escaped with only one thought—
not that—not that again; A line of
Browning came to her, then and later,
as the situation developed:
“She had
A heart—now shall I say?—too soon made
glad
Too easily impressed.”
It was rot a comment that would have
come from anybody else on 'this girl with
the brown hair, and eyes at which few
looked long enough to find the hidden
light that sometimes reduced them from
insignificance to positive beauty. Edward
Banks had discovered the latter, and he
looked again, always to encounter that
Instant wiflidraiwal of the vague some
thing that tantalized him behind the soft
reticence, of voice and eye, that echoed
in and out of The music she played to
herself of an evening In ffie shadows of
the great and, as she 'thought, empty
Orawing room.
lie watched and waited. Barbara
eluded more than ever. He told himself
that lie was too old to make experiments,
ho must be sure, though every day cau
tion became 'harder; she felt that what
•had toeen, was returning, and would not
let herself see the difference of this, the
real 'thing, from that old youthful imita
tion passion.
He hid his feelings far less cleverly
than he Imagined from their object. She
was continually averting their slight ex
piession, scheming against betrayal and
against her own response day after day,
until she felt forced to act. She dis
patched a letter that would ibring her a
telegram and she would fly.
She looked across the gay dinner table
tion, she seemed carried (from him.
"You don't know me yet,” he weait
on; “you have taken other people's views
ot me. I shall be different to you—quite
different, if you will let me show you
myself, apart from everybody else. I
have a prophetic fer lg about us—I had
it from the beginning. I suspect I am
going to make you want me, more than
you know.''
Insurgence returned—was overflowing
all.
\ ou can't make me what you more
—" She broke off laughing, the sud
denly timid. “Don't you gee—why?'
He did, though to the latest day of
t'heir life together he could never be
brought to understand how it came
about.
very hard up himself. I must keep it
from him somehow. But this woman
going to sit in the house until she gets
the money—it is 9:30 now. so she will be
here in half an hour. I must go out ana
get the money somehow, ueoftrey would
never forgive me. ’
At this moment Geoffrey Loveday, still
struggling with a refractory cuff link,
entered the room.
“Any letters, Phyllis?”
"Yes, Geoff; there are two for you.
Aunt Sophonisba, from New York, is
coming today, to stay with us for a
while.”
“That's g.md. She's the one with the
money, isn't she? We must treat the
old lady nicely, and perhaps she will
remember us. Halloa! wbat's this? Adam
Black—who is Adam Black?"
"Isn't he the uncle your mother used
to talk about, the one who left England
forty years ago, and hasn’t been heard
of since?"
“By Jove! I believe you are right."
(Roads.)
“Have arrived in England after forty
years' absence, anc] have just heard of
your existence. Should like to see what
sort cf a chap you are, so will run up
and spend a day or two with you. Yours,
“ADAM BLACK. "
“My aunt and your uncle—we shall be
quite a party. I—I don't think I want
any breakfast, Geoff; I am going out to
do some shopping.”
“All right. "Id girl; don’t mind me.”
Geoffrey Loveday gulped down a cup of
tea as he watched his wife leave the
room.
"Thank goodness, she's gone before I
opened this letter. Poor old darling, she
doesn't know the trouble we are hi.
What have the vampires got to say now?
“Messrs. Stumpy & Short beg to inform
Mr. Geoffrey Loveday "that they are sick
and tired of ills promises to pay tlielr
account of £49 3s 6d, and to notify him
that they are about to put In an ex
ecution forthwith.”
“What? Horrible, horrible! A broker's
man in Paradise Villa. It must not.
shall not be! Where are my boots?
Polly, Polly
told 'em that we’re fixed it up to get
married?"
“Told them? They won't listen to any
thing. There's something wrong here,
Adam, and we must put it right. My
niece doesn't know me, and Insists that
Ini a woman from her dressmaker's
come to dun her for a bill.”
“And my nephew thlniis I’m the
broker’s man.”
"But. Phyllis knows you as Adam
Black.”
"Y'es^ my nephew insisted upon me
pretending to be myself.”
‘•nil! this is getting mixed up. Phyllis
introduced me to Geoffrey as Sophonisba
Skinner, and dared nie to undeceive
him.”
"I'll tell you what it is. Sophy. Phyl
lis doesn't know that Geoff is expecting
the brokers, and Geoffrey doesn't know
that Phyllis is being dunned by her
dressmaker.”
“I believe you are right. What shall
we do?"
"Leave me alone with Phyllis, and
I'll get her to confide in me. You tackle
Geoff, and get him to confide in you.
Hush! here is Phyllis now; leave us—
go quickly.”
‘‘Ah! little darling; back again, eh?
Come and sit down with old Uncle
Adam and let us have a quiet talk. Why,
what’s the matter? Y'ou’ve been crying.
Come, come, tell me all about It.”
"Oh, uncle, I'm so unhappy! I've been
so wicked, and I've deceived Geoffrey.
I don’t know what to do. There is a
dreadful woman here, and she won’t go
away until I pay my dressmaker's' bill."
‘Oh, tut, tut; that’s bad. Do you mean
that fine, handsome woman I saw here
just now?"
"Yes, and she’s—she's a hateful crea
ture "
"But she said she was your aunt.”
Yes. I told her to; and I introduced
her to Geoffrey as Aunt Sophonisba—
and he kissed her.”
' Dear, dear, hew shaking! And how
much do you owe this dreadful wom
an?"
"It i:?-£27 16s 3 3-4d."
"My word! Well, well, let me see
what I can do. Come £jong to Geof
frey's den. and 'J'll see if I cand find
“Yes, sir; I'm here, sir; an’ ef yer .ft“ see if I ca
please, sir, there's a earroty-'alred man ] * n m > . portmanteau. '
wiv muttlng-chop whiskers a-standin’ in .' ^ u dea f’ kind uncle! I sh
the 'all. an' 'e ses 'e's come ter stay.” y< . u ~ lov . e J '? u lorever.
And in her gratitude Phyllis
her arms around Adam's neck
Geoffrey entered the room.
“Here, confound you; how dare you?
Phyllis, I'm—I'm—I'm shocked!”
jirlsoner shall be laid in some low dark
house, where she shall be naked on the
earth and one arm shall be drawn to one
quarter of the house, with a cord, and
the other arm to another quarter, and
in the same manner let it be done with
Ills legs, and there be laid upon his body
iron and stone, as much as he can bear
—or more." There the man had to lie.
On the following day he was given
three morsels of bread without water;
on the following, water, but no bread.
And this was his diet until lie died.
Says The London Times of May, 1806:
"A decently dressed woman was last
night brought out Into Smtthfleld
lor sale, but the brutai conduct of tliq
| bidders induced the man who was, or
pretended to be, her husband, to refuse
' to sell her; on which a scene of riot and
j confusion highly disgraceful to our po
lice took place.”
“An,”
UNSATISFACTORY.
sighed tho lovesick youth.
MISS ESTELLE REEL,
National Superintendent Indian
Schools.
you would only return my love!”
"That's just what I intend to (do.” re-
| plied the maid with the cold storage
I heart. "I haven't any earthly use for It.”
* And still Hie wasn’t satisfied.
ntng sea. The sound of the sea caime like
a faint song between the pauses of laugh
ter ami talk of the pleasant company, a
\ ague, sad retrain of waves that lapped
the foot of the cliff below the gardens.
Barbara thought, not of the beauty of
the evening, but of how ciesolate she
would be tomorrow night -away from
them all, alone! The sound of her own
name broke In-
"Why! You will be all toy yourselves
tonight. Ba, you and Ted; I had for
gotten we ure all going out to this pas
toral play, rehearsal thing. How rude
of us"—tile speaker laughed without peni
tence. “You must entertain one another
Ba; play to him. Old Ted would like
that ”
“He iwould,” Interpolated Edward.
"And it' toe's good he may smoke in the
drawing room; he could never toe happy
after dinner without.”
"Couldn’t toe?" Bartoara avoided the
glance direct across the dinner table.
They went off In a (body, (bearing fid-
RELICS FROM SUNKEN WARSHIPS
(From The London Chronicle.)
Memories of one of the greatest and
most tragic disasters In the annals of the
British navy are recalled by the recovery
of several interesting objects from the
wreck of tho Ramillies. off Bolt Head,
on the south coast of Devon.
The Ramillies, a lino of battle ship of
ninety guns, sailed from Plymouth on
February 13, 1700, on her fatal voyage,
with a crew oT 700 on board. The
weather was rough and speedily develop
ed into a terrible gale. According to tra
dition. when night came on one of the
crew warned the officers that the ship
was In a dangerous position In Bighury
bay, only a few miles from Plymouth.
At the time it was believed that the ship
was far out at sea. and the man. for
his presiynption. was put In Irons, but
that night the vessel struck a sub
merged rock, which ever since has been
known as the Ramillies rock, and Im
mediately foundered.
Out of the 700 men on board only two
were saved. One of the survivors, named
Will Wise, though his leg was broken,
climbed the rocks and was found next
morning in a pit which to this day is
known ns Will Wise's pit.
During the present week some fisher
men from the neighboring village of
Hope, with the assistance of a diver,
have been exploring the scene of the
wreck. Their explorations have resulted
in the recovery of a brass wheel, with
the king's broad arrow, a brass weight
and a lugger guard, all In a good state
of preservation.
On the rocky sea bottom the diver also
found four large guns. incrusted to
gether, and a large quantity of round
shot. Among tho villagers of Hope are
some old people who can remember a
song that used to be sung in connection
with the wreck and the man who was
drowned while in Irons.
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pense agent $8.75 end express obnrrea
bad tWy IN yours. Mention line wunted
Aw with nosey watch. Address:
"Lost. lost, all Is lost! Too late! too
late! Oh. Aunt Sophonisba. and your fat
legacy! Oh, Adam Black, my fat tingle—
no, I mean. oh. what shall I do? Don't
stand staring there; send up the man
with the pork-chop whiskers.”
"Mutting-chop, I sed, sir.”
“Pork op mutton, send him up. and
I'll eat him. Oh. to keep it from Phyllis
for a day or two longer! How to do It?
Ah! I have an Idea. Make him my uncle
until I go to the city and find the money.
I must, ft shall he done.”
At this moment a short, stout, red-
faced man entered the room with an
apologetic air.
"And so. sir, this Is how you do your
scurvy business. Enter a man’s house
and take possession without a “With
your leave' or 'By your leave.' But. un
derstand me, sir, I will not be trifled
with. You are here, and here I suppose
you must stay. Now, listen to me, and
do as you are told. My wife's aunt Is
coming here to spend a few days, and
our fat legacy would vanish If she knew
the brokers were in. I am now going
to the city, to beg, borrow or steal
money, and until I come back and pay
you out your name is Adam Black, from
Tinibuctoo or anywhere, and my uncle.
Do you understand? My uncle! Hush!
not a word, not a whisper; here comes
my wife. ”
With a wave of Ills hand, he pushed
the man on to the couch, where he
bobbed for a few seconds.
“Ah, Phyllis, my darling, here is my
uncle, Mr. Adam Black, arrived a little
before his time, but none the less wel
come, eh?"
“Oh, certainly not. I hope we shall
all spend a very happy time together.
Welcome, uncle, to Paradise Villa."
And to Godfrey's horror she threw her
arms around the fat man’s neck and
kissed him.
"Here, here, stop that! What do you—”
“Oh. surely, Goeff, you don't mind me
kissing your uncle?"
•'Certainly not.” chortled the fat man,
“little darling that you are. Do it again.”
"Oh. I shall go mad in a minute! Here,
uncle, come along to my den and take
your things off.”
“Certainly, my boy. Oh. you sly dog,
she is a beauty; you can pick 'em out.
Little darling.”
The red-faced man stood at the door
beaming like a cherub and kissing his
hand to Phyllis unttl Geoffrey, with
backward jerk dragged him from the
room. , , ,
‘Ah! What a kind-faced man he is!
But I must not stay here; I must get
out and find the money for Mme. Au-
relio. Oh! If that woman should come—
What is it, Polly-”
‘‘Ef yer please'm. there's a female
ooman In ther 'all wiv a ban’-box, an’
she ses she's come ter stay."
"Oh, dear, I am lost. What can I do.
Oil! I must see lier and plead with her.
Geoff must not know who she is. nor his
uncle either. Oh. how unfortunate it
all Is. What can I say? Ah! dare I do
it for a few hours? I will-I must. Since
she has presumed to intrude into this
house, I must make the best of it. and
for the time being she must be Miss
Sophonisba Skinner, my aunt, from New
York Pollv show the person up.”
“Yes’m. This is what I calls a reg'lar
r’ynl reception.”
‘“Make haste. Polly. And If the worst
conies to the worst. I must confess all
to Gi offrev's uncle.”
Further thought was precluded toy the
entrance of an elderly female, who come
in width such precipitancy that she
seemed to have received some assistance
from Polly Smutts.
•‘And so. miss, your employer, Mme.
Aurelie. has presumed to disturb the
.peace find quietness of this 'hair pv home
by Instructing you to make this your
abode until I pay you the sum of £27
16s 3 3-4d. Verv well, you shall have
the money In a few hours, but in the
meantime there are others to consider—
my husband and his uncle; so please un
derstand me that during your stay here
you are to be known as Miss Sophonisba
Skinner, my aun\ from New York.’
"Why. bless the girl, I—”
Not* a word; here comes my husband
“It is only Uncle Adam, Geoffrey, your
dear old uncle.”
“Yes, it's only dear old uncle. Como
along, Phyllis, my pet. and see what I
can find tor you. Little darling."
“Oh! I—3 shall kill him; I know I
shall. I can't get the money anywhere.
A nice time this Is. Adi! here comes
Phyllis’ aunt.”
"Anything wrong, Geoffrey?”
“Yes, everything's wrong; the broker's
man Is in possession.”
“The broker's man?”
“Yes; a carroty-haired brute with
pork-chop whiskers.”
"Do you mean that distinguished look
ing gentleman I met in this room a few
minutes ago?”
“Oh, you've met him, have you?”
“But he said he was your uncle.”
“And I said I’d kill him if he didn’t.
You see, Phyllis doesn't know what a
hole I'm in, and I—I Introduced tho
broker’s man to her as Adam Black,
and—and—she kissed the brute!”
“And how much does this Interesting
gentleman want?”
"Exactly £49 3s 6fl.”
“Well, dear, here is a bank note for
£50.”
"By Jove. aunt, you are a trump! N w
I can get rid of the incubus, and see
some prospect of us having a pleasant
time.”
“Well, surely you are going to kiss
me for it?"
"Rather; as often as you like.”
And while Geoffrey was engaged in
this pleasant occupation Adam Black en
tered with his arm around Phyllis.
“Geoffrey, take your arm from that
woman’s waist."
“You scoundrel, how dare you place
your arm around my wife?”
"Woman, there is your money; take
it and begone.”
“Man, your money is inere; take it and
clear out.”
“Geoffrey!”
"Phyllis!”
“What does this mean?" asked Phyllis.
“It means that tins man Is not my
uncle, but a low broker's man sent by
Stumpy & Short to take possession of
our goods. Now, pray, who is this
woman ?”
She—i s not my aunt, hut a—a
woman sent by Mme. Aurelie.' my dress
maker, to collect a bill I owe her.”
"But she lent me £50."
“And your uncle lent me £27 16s
3V, d.”
“What does it all mean? Perhaps you
two can explain."
While they were all staring at each
other, PoW.v made an exciting entry.
“Oh. if ver please, sir, there's a 'ooman
a-sitt!n' on a 'all chair with a red face,
a-puffin' like a gramphirfrse. an' a man
a-sittin' on another 'all chair as smells of
beer, an’ ther 'ooman ses brokers or no
brokers slie ain't ngoin' ter stir ithout
£27 16s 34id, and they're a-glarln' at
each other. Shall I send the "ooman
down ther front teps on 'e ear.
nmm ?"
"Good heavens! Caji there be a mis
take"!! Who are you. sir?”
“Well, if you have pome to your senses
and will allow me to get a word in edge
ways. I will do the honors. T—am Adam
Black, from Canada, and this lady—”
“Is Sophonisba Skinner, from New
York."
“We met on the steamer coming
across.”
“And are shortly going to be mar
ried."
“Oh. Geoffrey, what have we dcnel”
“Made a couple of prize lunatics of
ourselves through trying to deceive each
other. Uncle, aunt, what can we say
or do to show our remorse?"
“AYell, speaking for both of us, I should
say. pay the two people downstals* and
say nothing more, but let us all devoto
oursedves to spending a haptpy time.”
‘ 'Eo,'. ’ear," shouted Polly.
‘So you two turtle doves can kiss and
make it up, and promise never to do it
Oh, Geoff, such a surprise! Here’s Aunt again." said Sophonisba, “while I, tha
Sophonistoa. from New York.” j terrible woman from the dressmaker s,
“By Jove! I am glad to see you. Wei- will dej the same with—’’
come, aunt, welcome!” | “The broker’s man."