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IMPRESSING
ISABEL.
By ELLIOT WALKER.
Copyrighted, I*M, l>y Associated
Literary I’rei*
“I'm sure I don't know how I am
over lo pH out of thin Hcni[>e.” The
ptr! (veered helplessly from the anti
quated shed, shuddering at the thuu
dor eraHhes close ou the heels of every
Hash of light nliip.
A deluge of rain swept across the
wild pastures. Tin* lifook, fifty feet
uway, roared between its older lined
banks. •
t p<>n her wide hat fell a steady drib
bb* from the leaky roof, and her thin
dress was fnsl dampenin'; in the rnist
driven shelter.
She forced a laugh. Isabel Lynn was
not easily daunted. <>f course it was
lonely and wet and very shattering to
the nerves, but she was perfectly safe
< >li. yes; let her thank Iter stars to be
secure under the friendly boards,
j Suddenly a gasp broke from her.
She shrank back. Something win
coining with leaps through the high
weisls growing rankly at I lit* corner of
liet retreat. Through Isabel s startled
brain tore thoughts of dangerous anl
Dials. The near mountains might hold
anything. She cowered into the far
thest corner. Surely tin* tiling would
go by.
j But it didn’t. It dashed under the
Hit'd, witli a loud snort, blowing and
shaking vigorously, then stood gazing
at the storm, and woids < ame to Isa
ibcl's horrified ears in a steady stream
of disgusted wrath. •
“Well, If this doesn't beat me! Look
at my shoos! Look at my new tlannel
suit! My hat is ruined! The next (hue
1 g<> trailing around on the trail <>f a
girl I'll kuow it. Foster AMsfcou, you’re
nil unmitigated ass. 1 guess tln* ■ harm
lug Miss Lynn will uot have tlie ideas
tire of meeting yon! tJirls! Bali! I'll
lake tlie* first traiu home. 1 wish Fd
never heard of her.”
“So (In I!" sounded a voice in ids rear
Tin* man Jumped and wheeled. lie
saw a slender, white gowned figure
straighten up, take a forward stop and
then halt. A clap of thunder drowned
Ids exclamation. Then his Jaw fell.
"I>!d you speak, sir?" indignantly.
“1,-1 tiled to Beady, I I am over
joyed to to bo here, Miss Lynn. Of
course you are you that Is bless m.v
soul! So unexpected, you know, Quite
a shower.”
lie cut a ridiculous figure in Ids star
lug etnbai iVissment, pulling off tlie
wrecked straw hat, bowing in bis soak
ed garments, greatly at loss for words,
woefully conscious of what lie had
said. Anil he knew that Isabel Lyun
had heard ldm as a model of courtesy
and easy manners.
He scraped a hesitating toe in the
dirt, smiling Idiotically. Was it for this
- ids fifty mile journey?
* “Isabel is extremely particular and
sensitive to first impressions.” bis Aunt 1
Julia had said. "Here is your letter of
Introduction, Foster. It’s silly to go
crazy over a photograph, but go nlioad.
She Is worth it. Everything depends
upon the way she is approached. Fie j
praised you to her up to the skies.”
t The girl stepped nearer, eying him
in scornful amusement. Her eyes were !
bright with 111 concealed desire to hum
ble. The dampness had curled her dis
ordered hair In bewitching rings about !
her white forehead. Boses shone in the
smooth checks where sarcastic dimples
played.
c A list on thought he had never seen r.
more lovely face uor one so unread
abb*. Idly swinging her hat. she sut
veyod him curiously, with a chilling
hauteur, which stung him to steadi- !
and a reckless impulse to retort.
•'^yhon‘sumhiers farmhouse
wetting must be expected. Mr. All
stou," h aid Isabel evenly. “You
shouldn't mind your new suit or your |
shoes. Dear me, bow childish! I have |
heard that you could afford to dlsre-|
gard trifles. I wasn't to blame. \on
needn’t have 'trailed' me.”
Allsttou regarded her in silence.
There was more than a hint of dls
appointment in Isabel's tone. Ilad she
been prejudiced in his favor only to
react sharply at his boyish outburst?
Surely some humor lay in the situa
tion. Couldn't the girl set* it? He re-j
fleeted dismally that many women
never forgive slighting remarks, even
when uttered in unmeaning careless
ness.
The cool voice went on.
‘1 suppose they told you at the house
that I was over this way?”
Foster nodded.
“And you never imagined 1 might be
in this shed?”
A head shake.
“You must have had me very much
on your mind. Were Ia big man seek
lug a lost damsel my Idea would bo to
keep my eyes open for the shelters to
(which she would sensibly run. not lose
my wits In selfish consideration of rai
ment and then anathematize the lady.”
She laughed cuttingly.
Allstou’s countenance was reddening
“Why don't you speak?" The uplift
lur'cliin was a challenge for his re
aTTor sudlcfonTreduction.
‘•l'm thinking,” said Alfston slowly.
“I'm trying to make out. wliut chance I
have of of”— He paused, hesitating.
“What chance?" Her eyes opened
wide a I bis seeming audacity.
“Of catching the 8 o’clock train. It. is
getting late.”
“Oh!” Inals*! looked down, then up.
A strange darkness was settling down
| upon the earth. Both had forgotten
I the storm, now grumbling back from
the south. The man stepped out In the
i rain In a moment lie returned. Fils
face was set In hard, worried lines.
“You’ll put ou tny coat, atul we'll got
into the open,” said he decidedly. “1
may be a fool, but I kuow something
of cloudbursts. This building isn't
safe. Quick!"
A sharp command, a dui h beneath
her arm, then a rapid hoisting over
rough ground, through a pelt of huge
drops, to a low stone wall, and Isabel,
breathless, felt herself pulled to her
knees, while a strong arm clasped her
firmly.
Forget ling all save the recognition of
superior strength and judgment, ap
palled by the murky blackness, the re
verberating shocks of heaven's artil
lery thundering over the hills, she nes
tled against him, with a little cry, as
before her frightened gaze a broad
sheet of flame showed bending trees
flattened to earth and a distant rail
fence flung into flying wreckage.
The man held her more tightly with
an unconscious pressure. Ilis face was
set and steady, tense in bis watching,
j yet filled with that bold, half smiling
light seen on the visages of those who
fearlessly face danger.
The next bright flare found Iter eyes
meeting his in a look as rapid and in
tense as the lightning Itself. The girl
smiled at him as his breath drew In
sharply.
‘T>own!’ shouted Allstim. “Flat! It’s
coining. Shut your eyes and bang to
tny neck.”
Isabel did. In the roar of the ele
ments she clung blindly to him, con
scious only of a deafening noise and a
sense of collapse.
The hush following was broken by
Allston’s laugh.
“Thought so,” he uttered. “Look!
Our sited is a heap of slicks. Miss
Lynn. ’That miniature cyclone hit it
just right. Well, well, if 1 hadn't hap
pened lo think so much of my
clot h**s”—
“Don’t!” said the girl. “Don’t,
please!"
The man solemnly consulted his
watch.
“If we hurry,” he observed, “I can
get you home and catch my train."
Isabel caught his sleeve.
“No,” she whispered Softly. “I’d
father you would miss It.”
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AilstoiTs Aunt Julia was speaking of
Ids engagement a month after a be
draggled couple surprised the occu
pants uf a certain farmhouse.
“I don't understand how Foster man
aged it so quickly,” she said. “1 find
my letter of introduction was not used.
He must have made an excellent im
pression the minute he met Isabel.”
Napoleon and the Roman Law.
Napoleon 1. had an extraordinary
mind. He appeared never to forget
anything he cared to remember and
assimilated information ns the stom
ach assimilates food, retaining only the
valuable. An incident will illustrate
this remarkable quality of his mind.
When forming the '(’ode Napoleon”
he frequently astonished the council
of state by the skill with which be i!
lustrated any point in discussion by
quoting whole passages from memory
of the Human civil law. The council
wondered how a man whose life had
been passed in camp came to know sq
much about the old Homan laws. Ft
ually one of them asked him bow lie
acquired bis knowledge.
“'Alien 1 was a lieutenant." Napo
leon replied, “l was unjustly placed uu
dcr arrest. My small prison room con
taiued no furniture except an old ehaii
and a cupboard. In the latter was a
ponderous volume, which proved to be
a digest of the Homan law. Veu can
easily imagine what a valuable prize
the book was to me. It was so bulky
and the leaves were so covered with
marginal notes in manuscript that had
I been confined 100 years 1 need never
have been idle. When I recovered my
liberty, at the end of ten days, 1 was
saturated with Justinian and the de
cisions of the Homan legislation. It
was then I acquired my knowledge of
the civil law.”
Marriage Among the Aztecs.
The Aztecs, the most civilized peo
ple of the new world at the time of Its
discovery, had a curious marriage cus
tom. The ceremony was performed
by a priest, who took the hands of the
bride and bridegroom, asking them if
they would marry.
lie then took a earner of the wo
man's veil and the man's robe and
knotted them together, and so they
were led to the bridegroom's house. A
fresh tire was then kindled on the
hearth, and around this lire the priest
caused the bride to go seven times.
The wedded couple then sat down to
gether. and so was the marriage con
traced. An Inventory was also made,
which the father of the bride aftcr
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wife brought together, of furniture for
the house, of land, of jewels, orna
meSts and clothes. Then if It clinnred
that the couple were divorced.(as was
common among the Aztecs when man
and wife did not agreei they divided
the goods according to the portion each
had brought to the other, both man
and wife haring liberty to marry again
whom they pleased. Of the children
of the marriage the . daughters were
given to the wife and the sons to the
husband. It was enacted upon pain
of death that the divorced couple were
not again to remarry.
DYNAMITE fN THE MAKING.
Workmen Who Are Encircled by Death
In Gallons and Tons.
So thoroughly deceptive is dynamite
in the making that you are apt to be
disappointed on viewing the surface
of things. You could more readily
fancy thunderbolts leaping and crash
ing from tender bine skies than that
the most fearful forces in creation are
hidden under such a peaceful exterior
Nitioglyceriu, a cupful of which would
distribute you over square miles of
landscape, is diligently mixing around
you in hundreds and thousands of gal
lons.
It is making itself in big iron retorts,
cascading down leaden gutters and
merrily tumbling in minute Niagaras
into immense vats, wTicre the deli
quescent yellow peril pursues Its jour
ney powderward. Out of one recep
tacle it fares furiously through special
lead coils, driven only by cooling blasts
of air. and is drawn off like draft ale
and piped on to the next perfecting
stage, (laze with the nitroglycerin ex
pert into one of those big caldrons.
The interior is brilliantly illuminated
by electricity, the only illuminating
agency permitted in or about the dan
ger houses.
Around you are other houses at uni
form distances apart and connected
by a series of narrow gauge tracks
wherein workmen are railroading ni
troglycerin from here and pulp cotton
from there to be compounded into dy
namite and blasting gelatin. Greatest
care is taken in rolling the product
from house to house. As noon as a
is road pass gu|, of .the
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nitroglycerin house, for instance, a
semaphore signals from an adjoining
station, to which the consignment is
carefully hurried.
Around you are long storehouses
packed with pulp in tons of innocent
whiteness. Presently this pub) will as
sume a tan color under the nitrating
process, and then, suddenly becoming
carbonite, red cross, hetvuies. judson
and giant powder, for< ite or what you
order, it develops the quasi virtues of
dynamite—dynamite or Masting gela
tin in which more natural forces are
condensed to the cubic inch than exist
anywhere else in creation. Death,
curbed and sleeping, etwitvles you in
gallons and tons. Annihilation threat
ens at every turn in the term of poten
tial pulverizing forces. Hut the man
and the mercury are there also, alert,
responsive, reliable. —I -eslie s Weekly.
Never bear more than one kind of
trouble at a time. Home people bear
threeikinds all they have had. all they
haveViow and all they expect to have.
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In The Lumber Market
an expected rise will soon take
place. We have a good stock on
hand and plenty ordered for those
who will need it for building pur
p >ses at the.old figures, so tlrftt
present prices will prevail. Or
der now and take advantage Of
the market at
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1 o suppose that because we s*ol
harness so cheap it cannot he'
good. Low prices means just less
profit for us. that’s all. T£fe
purchaser it is who gets the bene
tlt. Our reputation for reliabili
ty and square dealing is pretty
well known in the community.'
Fine custom work our specialty.
Repairing neatly and promptly j
executed.
The Town to Be Born In.
In the German town of Ivlingenberg, j
near Ascbaffeuberg, Bavaria. in addi
tion to having no rates to pay for the
upkeep of the town, those actually
born In the parish receive from the
municipality a sum of £l2 15s. a yea£ j
This sum. if invested regularly at. say,
3 per cent, would entitle the owuer to
rceive about £1.500 at the age of sixty ,
—a very handsome old age pension.
Were it not necessary that the inhab
itants should prove birth In the parish
before becoming entitled to this pay
ment the popularity of Klingenberg as
a place of residence would
be enormous.—Westminster Gazette.
For Bargain Day.
‘■She’s no lady!’’
“Why, I always thought her most £*• j
fined.“
“On the surface, yes. But what do
you think of a woman who wears het*
little boy’s football shoes to the bavJ
gain sales and spikes every one who
gets in her way?”—Cincinnati En
quirer.