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HOW DAN KENT MISSED HIS THANKSGIVING BANQUET. The Kents—father and soo—cama to Chicago when Dan was a small boy, so tUat the latter aoon forgot about all la> hia-w of Oldshurg and Ha people. If bo bad been older he might nuve been gladder to forget It, for there mister- tune had overtaken hia family, hi* mother had died, and hia vague recol lection of the place pictured tlie one long, dismal street down which he rode in a carriage to the cemetery, where the autumn leare* reeked In a cold rain and the clay falling Into a grave Bound ed like the thump of bis old toy drum. Dnu Kent having a merry heart, didn't want to cherish any such dreary memories, go be bad grown to man hood without revisiting the home of bis infuucy. Mot so bis father. The old man managed to stay away from the scene of hia dlaaster till Joshua Colvin died. Then be went to the funeral of hia old friend and partner, and ever nfter, up to the time of his death, main tained a habit of periodical visits to the old home town. Dan thought this odd nt first; then he began to suspect that there was some old, long burled ro mance between his father and the Widow Colvin, -you’re right, Dan,” said tbo old man, when Ills son twitted him about the Oldshurg visits. "I'd marry her now If I wasn't so old and poor, mid if yon take my advice you'll go after her daughter, Kate. They were like brothers in tlielr fruuk and lovlug relationship in those days, and Dan, who liked to banter bis father, waa almost glad to “have something- on tbs old man. But when the elder Kent grew feeble he talked nlwny* more and more of the Colvins. If they were a Joke with Dan, they were not so with Ills father. “I wish you’d go up and see them," lie would say. "I can’t any more, and —Dan—I wish you'd see Kate—young Kate. Bet you'd fall In love with her In spite of yourself, I wish you would ' Tber,” or her mother, will you do what you can for tbemf Promise, Pan. 1'ou'll write to them, anyhow." but he let a lot of sentiment Into It. Sentimental passages never look right to a sensible girl who reads them !u a letter trem n man she has never seen. Besides, Dan wasn't exactly a master of rhetoric at that time, anil what ho wrote could have been couched in terms of infinitely greater tact and delicacy by any second rate romance writer. Ills first faux pas, however, was in In closing a post-ofiiee order for ?50, "a loan, of course," he wrote, "which 1 Dhst you will accept until such time, he. It waa awful, of course, but Dan was young and be meant to do a kind office to the orphan girl in Qldzburg. When he mailed the letter it dawned upon him that he had made on use of UIiu- eelf. The more be conued over the •enteneea which he hud meant to be the finest, the purer lie was that they were coarse, impertinent, idiotic. She would be offended at his tope, insulted at hia offer to loan her money, “i feel that there is a bond of sympathy between us,” etc., had been the best he could think of ns “an approach** to the mention of a loan, but now it sounded inexpressibly silly. Ho got her answer by return mail, nnd when lie tore open the envelope the fell on the lloor. “Serves pity right,” he gasped, but his eyes began to bulge when he sow the first line of the letter itself: “i>oar,duur friend,” it began, “Sad, sad, indeed must that heart he which cannot be cheered by the sweet dell* cacy and soulful sympathy of a friend Hko you. Q, how my lonesome heart goes out responsive, and yet " “Slush!” f That’s what Dan said. lie could hardly force himself to read it* I* his letter had been badly framed, hers was the dregs of gusli. A wild hope that Kate Colvin hadn’t written it seized him, hut the narrowest comparison showed it to be hey handwriting. There was nothing absolutely Immod est in her hysterical epistle, but it fair ly oozed sentimentality, which Pun was sure ha would always despise in a woman. “tilud to get back my fifty, anyhow,” make an end of an escapade which was Just beginning to cloy. As he grew serious ho reflected up* 09 the folly—“folly? Perhaps it was mean of mo." ho thought, and this last idea hold him so that ho went home and wrote on honest* manly letter to the girl, in which ho strove to exoner ate himself, He knew, eh© would for give him tor returning her photograph, he aaid, and for asking her to forgot the whole episode, which, he hoi>ed, had given her as much harmless merri ment as It had given blip* The tone of this letter w«« so modest, so sensible so self-deprecating, and so completely disillusioning that pan thought as he dropped it in the mail box:: “Pud would have liked that letter. I would never have written the others If he had been with me." That was Monday. Thursday was banksglving Pay, and as Dan Kent us to be the guest at a banquet that evening, he resolved to get a bite in his favorite cafe. The place was crown ed with diners, nnd he looked In vain for a familiar face. The head waiter found a place for him at a table at which sat a woman alone. Sim was modestly, but quite fashionably, at tired, young—perhaps twenty—at egso. with an odd mixture of confidence and shyness. Her black eyes shone with the light of a brave and quick Intelli gence, Her awart hair drooped about her small ears in smooth glistening tresses. Her red mouth— Pan had got thus far In his sub conscious cataloguing of the beautiful woman opposite him when she darted one angry glance nt him in which M8SIP fUQM ABROAD. Tales of Diplomatic and Court In trigued The Earl of Mlnto, Governor-General of Canada aud auocogsor to Lord Cur- son as Viceroy of India, first cumo to Canada as Military goerptary to Lord Panadowne In 1883. He was then Lard MeJgund. Three years later ho served on the staff of General Middleton iu the Northwest rebellion and distin guished himself by his bravery. He was sent back to England for slapping the face of the colonel of a Montreal ’cglmopt with whom he bad a disagree ment The reason given for the Czar's fusal to permit the Grand Puke Cyril to marry the divorced Grand Duchess of Hesse: the Princess Victoria of Sate* roburg, Is that Cyril aud his brother, the Grund puke Boris, had prominent roles in the scandal which recently was disclosed at Kharkoff. noth grand dukes were members of tho so-called club of Sybarites at Kharkoff, where indescribable orgies took place. Tbo dub, as l urn informed, has only twen ty members, ull the sous of the first families of Hus8la. No males except slip parted one angry ulance at him. When his father died, Dan grieved he sneered, pocketing the order and Hl>e a map, and regained Ids spirits like the wholesome, clvup-liearted youth he was; but he forgot olsmt the Colvins aftpr he bad answered the widow’s let ter of condolence. He remembered them again when he saw In the Olds- hun? Bauner tho obituary of Mrs. Kate Nlebllng Colvin. lie ought to have gone to Oldshurg to comfort the orphan girl, but ho disliked funerals and he couldn’t got over bik glbomy impression of the old town. So he wrote a letter to Kate, as he bad promised his father, sending such words of comfort {i* a stranger must, but offering to be of any assistance in his power. He icnrcely expected a reply, but he got one within a week. It was a stilted, studied letter. She waa grateful for kind words from the son of her mother’s kind friend. She Would do quite well, she thought, when she got hack to her work ns a school teacher. Her work might help her to forget It was a dismal letter—Just \Uv oldshurg. be thought-end he did not answer It. A month later be got •another from her. Would he kindly buy for her Kinyon’s pedogogical chart? It would cost about $1, which she in closed. “I will be ever so much obliged,” she concluded. Ho found the Chart, which cost *•**. and sent her a pote in which he said he was glud to he of service. He didn't mention that pe was loser by iq the transaction, Within a fortnight another letter came to him from Kqte Colvin, in which she said that she hud Just learned the chart had cost $3, perlteP* more, and that she “would return the balance the moment her salary was paid. They are In arrears with me for the last two mouths,” the IftUCf “M I am sure they will pay us before Christmas.” To Pan Kent there WA9 poignantly sad in the plaiu. i is wmething ignautly sad in the plain, simple, but Uncomplaining statement of the eoun- i ry school teacher’s poverty. Two dol- jfg! He was making money and spending It as lavishly an a setf-re- apecting young man could. Evidently poor Kate Colvin could not spare $2 from a scanty hoard that might not be TCplenlstwd at once. He was a getR erous, tender fellow, and, some|mw, that bald, almost childlike confession Uf a girl’s lonely struggle for the bene fits which he won so easily and regard- ed SO lightly, CSV. n sharp sting to to* gentle spirit and clouded h|s radl.nt Then ho made a natnrpl tot S u*p*t egregious mistake. He wanted to write p kind, sympathetic and helpful letter,! autograph oh Its hack to retired to te aring the letter with one angry Jerk. Then bo paused, put the torn edgo of her eouiuiunleutiou together, and re read it "Ob, how my lonely heart goes out resiHinslyo." Tuat lino started him, and ho laughed till the bookkeeper stared and the stenographer Joined In the merriment. "I'll get hack at her," thought Dan Kent, ns he opened his desk. And he spent two hours that evening trying to outdo the Uorld periods of his Olds hurg protege. But he didn't sand back the fifty. On Kuturday lie got go an swer that fairly scintillated with flashes of Cupid's arrows. He tod sup- isised that his letter rooe to every flight of sentimental hyperbole, but It seemed commonplace and tuwilry be- shin tho glittering fabric of her latest epistolary composition. He hud to get “Tho Children of the Abbey" from the public library before he could answer Unit letter, mu], |n or der ta stluiulsto her to s still more gen erous effusion, he wound tip hi* ecstatic billet with a superbly servile petition for her picture. Ho sahl "counterfeit presentment" first, but for fear she'd regard that as n mercenary allusion, be scratched the words away and substi tuted "ftor linage." The photograph that arrived In the next letter w»s worthy of the foolish girl's correspond ence. A simpering, weak audio, evi dently calculated to display two pretty dimples and a row- of the white teeth ; a muss of fluffy blond half, falling al most to the eyebrows: a white lawn dress of tho Style that had been con sidered “smart" a few years ago; ban gle rings on the dainty Ungers I "She looks the part,” laughed Dan, “nnd If l don't send her my picture now thla sport will come to a sudden letter suggested an exchange, nnd Dan, In the exuberance of what seemed such a capital joke, determined to send her the picture of his barber, a dashing young gallant with melancholy black eyes and a tightly wuxed Wil helm mustache. It wns Kent's Irrepressible love ef fun thgt led him Into this thoughtless nnd. for him, unkind correspondence. But the letters had passed so rapidly and with such Increasing and almost outlandish expressions of romantic emotion that be bad not taken time to look at any but the funny aide of the affair. Hff tod (town t*« Wte«to no body, destroying them as soon as they were toad- When he bad mailed the barber’s photograph to Kate with his Ids fascinated stare. It vanished ns quickly at It came. She drew from her reticule a parcel of papers, read a Clip ping, and then unfolded his letter t.i Kate Colvin with the same photograph of tb, Oldshurg school teacher that u- had mailed on Monday 1 He started, looked again, stood up, nnd betrayed Ills curiosity by leaning forward. Sbo glared at him, looked frightened for nil Instant, nnd then flashed with anger, "Hot* dare you!” was all she said, but .the emphasis of her low voice helped him. “I beg your pardon, madam," bo an swered. sitting down, "I wrote that letter uyeolf to tho girl whose picture you have there, and It startled mo to seo it to your hand, t am the ‘Dan of that letter, Daniel Kent—” Ho stopped short Her face wns wreathed In smiles. "Why, Dan,” sho commenced, to that same sweetly singing voice, “No! Arc you Daniel Kent? Tho picture I Any how, If you’re Dnnlel Kent, or just n friend of hts who helped him try to make a fool of a country girl, you’re hoih mistaken. I'm Kate Colvin.” She began the scntenco with a COO nnd ended It with n rasp. Dan was dumbfounded, but ho got out his card and gave It to her. "Well, you might have known I wasn’t the kind to borrow money from a man I bad never seen,” she s lid, smiling, nnd her bruno cheeks red. “Von might have known I wasn't fool enough to write drivel to ait utter straugcr. As for you, I thought you were a downright Idiot until i got that last letter. That raug truo, I canto down to Chicago to pay you the *2 I owe you, and to—” “But, KRtc,” asked the delighted Dnnlel, “what prompted you to Btart the—foolishness }" "Oh, I didn't like your sending that money, and—well, I didn't want to he pitied, either. I lmnglnod you were one of those Chicago smartlos, nnd— well. It was dull to Oldshurg; It's ab wnys dull there." “And now we’vo met and found oach other out, KateV They laughed like children, looking frankly Into one another’s happy fuces. "It't Thanksgiving. Dan." she said, “I’ll give thanks that this (bolding out the picture of the pudgy blond) lun't vAft " Ha Inncylifwl. Isn't you,” he laughed, "And I’ll give thanks that you couldn't look Uke thla 1" And sho hold out the picture of the dashing barber. And they dined so merrily togelbei that Dan forgot everything but Kate, and Kate nearly forgot to pay hack thu .‘kk—Chicago Tribune. The Goal of Rhh Awarleaat. Charlemagne Tower, the American Ambassador to Germany, was speak ing of tho American's love for Paris nt a dinner he gave In Philadelphia. “Our love for Paris Is no doubt great,” he sahl, “but I am sure It Is not so groat at our European cousins would have ns believe. We all, of roursc, have heard the European say ing, ‘when a good American- dies, be goes to Paris.' In Berlin, from a boarded French dlplonmt, I heard last year a nevnl variant 'of this. The diplomat said ho was sure l would sympathise with the profound and Ingenuous emotion of a young Ameri can girl, who lived, he said. In a lileak western city. There wore to these day* no Institutes for tho treatment of rabies, save In Paris, Tho young girl's llfo wss vrty monotonous. One day she hurst Into a neighbor's bouse, almost beside herself with Jeyous ex citement. "Her dark ores flashed. Her cheeks had a delicate rase (lush. Punting s mile site cried in a tremulant velcet “ Thunk goodness, w* are going to Paris nt Inst. Dad has been bltteu by u mad dog!’" CZAIt N1CHOI.AH AND IIkilt. the members woro allowed to enter the club, which was a pnhtco at white mar ble. All tbo servants wore females, tody guests, however, wore welcome. The minimi subscription to the club was $1,000, but tbore wore enormous extra expenses. All dishes ware served on gold nnd sliver plates. The drapery was of the costliest material, and waa embroidered with Jewels after designs by Cyril, who, it will bo remembered, In company with bis boon camimnlons, Indulged la orgies similar to tboso at the club cron at the front In Manchuria until the Cznr recalled hint. King Edward Is mi enthusiastic golfer, and has a little course of his own at Windsor, Tho Princess of Wlpd, who Is a prom inent flgure lit the court circles at Ber lin, and whose husband is lit tile line of succession to the throne of llollnnd. buys all tho Ill-used horses that come ta her notlco and gives them tho benefit of a stay In her well-appointed stables and meadows. y While the Emperor of Germany docs not fall to transact a largo amount of public busImsH during bis various voy age* foe rest and recreation, when on bln yacht at sun ho 1* a very dif ferent man from tho ruler of a great Ultlqn living In state at Berlin. , President toubet of France has taken tho lurfoot cure; that Is, himself, wlfo anil daughter have gonefbarofoot, ox- it sandals, orf all but core- this hotjram- cept for light saw nionlous occasions during mcr. The sandals worn by the Presi dent nnd bis family come from Africa, living tbo approvod Arabian kind. Tho President uuvlses sandal wearing In summer for these rca*ous: 'The naked foot not only benefits that mem ber, keeping It cool and allowing it to breathe, but benoflts tho whole physi cal system and the mental na well. Mbe.ate the foot of the customary en closure*, socks and shoe*, and you r nerves will grow stronger; If you arc excited or worried, It will wear pir easier." Tan Oalava Modem Dogs of IFor. TUo German Army, fighting In Her. rcro land, under Gen. Von Trothn, em ploys a corps of "„uu dogs. One of these ■logs was recently struck and WQUUdcd by a bullet In the engagement of Opn- Jbo, while scouting In front of the skirmishing line. He displayed the greatest fearlessness under fire and worked faultlessly until disabled. The Japanese use using a number of dogs for rccannoltcrlng purposes. They attached to long ropes and wall trained. The Bosnians are employing dogs for sentry and messenger work. t’apt. Pershlsky of the late Count Keller's stall, writing from Odessa, says; "In finding the wounded men with which the millet fields are strewn nothing has succeeded like bur seven dogs; their intelligence, especially the English bred ones, I* extraordinary.'' I have' been naked several times to aup- ply dogs to the Itnsslan army, and only quite recently was commissioned to purchase sheep dogs In the highlands for the German ambulance dog-trsln- Ing establishment. Perhaps Instead of breeding and exporting dogs for for eign armies, we may some day And o.ur dogs of service to their own country. Ne\r Blood la Koval Engineering. Itons tbo Baltimore Ban It may be quoatloned. In View of the Bennington explosion, whether the Navy Department’s policy of restrict ing engineering appointments in the nary, to graduates at Annapolis Is best for tbo scrrlco. Tbo graduates of tbc Naval Academy are bright fellows, no doubt, but only a few of them liuvo a talent for mathematics, physics, me chanics and othor like aclencos that underlie the engineer's equipment. It ts well known that there la dllllculty In getting from their number enough men to take post-grndnato courses at the Boston Teehnologleul School, nnd tlius prepare tiiemielves for tho engine room and machine shop of the modern bat tleship or cruiser. The result Is that the service Is short of capable traliu-d men who know how to handle hollers, engines, repair shops, electrical Instal lation, etc. Tho Bennington la not the first of our warship* to bo Injured by reason of Insufficient attention In the engineering department. Tho remedy. It seems, Is to Inject some new blood from civil life Into tho engineering de partments of our ships. It is all very well to reserve good berths for the An jKipolls graduates, but tbo practice Is carried too far when It results in starv ing tbo engine rooms. There arc tunny graduates yearly from onr technological schools who nro ns capable as any that can be found. The engineering depart ment Of the navy ought to bo recruited In part from tho outside talent, which ha* been educated In the art of ship construction, management and repair. It Is possible to carry too far tho policy of keeping pl| appointment* to the navy far naval officers, especially wboq no exception Is made of classes of ap pointments for which Annapolis grad uates have no especial qualifications. Not a Meaningless Phrase. From tb* Chicago Chronicle. it la nqt meaningless that earth Is called our "mother earth." it was somehow from the earth that mankind •prong it tbo dawn of Ufa- it is into htr arm* he must go back when Uf* is ended. 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