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THE One Woman’s Story . By VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DE WATER CHAPTER XIX. A S Mary Danfort h rode up hom in the elevated on the April I afternoon Just two years after her first meeting with Gordon Craig, j she found the sad thoughts tha* had j been with her so long slipping away. She was sure that her lover was j thinking of her and that on this nn- i niversary she would receive happy : news of him. She almost believed .n premonitions, and she remembered, with a slight shudder, how once a premonition sh< had had about h^r father had been the forerunner of hi-» death not long after. Why might not . one also have a perrnonitlon of Joyous happenings? As she left the triln at Eighty-first ' street a voice i*uld close to her. “Why, ! Mary I>anforth! How do you do?” | Turning with a start, she found her- i self face to face with a former school mate of whom she had seen nothing for two years. “Which way are you going?" aske 1 the girl after greetings had been ex change d. “I go westward,” replied Mary briefly. Working Downtown. “Oh. too bad, for I go to Central Park West. We are living in th" same old place, you know, where you used to come to see us. You never come now.” “No," acknowledged Mary. “I have little time. I am working down town.” “Well, I want to talk to you a bit.” said Elizabeth Prexton, who had al ways liked Mary when the Danforths were prosperous. “Suppose you walk with me toward my home, or let me walk with you toward yours. Which shall it be?” “I will go with you," replied Mary quickly. She felt a reluctance of which she was ashamed—to have th>s patronizing acquaintance of former days see the house in which she now lived. “It must be fine to be working f<»r one’s self,” said Miss Preston as the two girls sauntered along Eighty-flrst street toward Central Park “Of course I have no excuse for doing that kind of thing, for niv father has ph-ntv of money, and I am the only daughter left at home. Put some- t mes I get a little tired of eaae and luxury and long to l»e independent.’’ Mary tried to smile. “‘He J'sts at scars who never felt a wound.', ” site quoted. “Perhaps if you had to work, you would And what poems independ ence to you now something like s’a very.” She regretted the words as soon a» she had spoken them, for her companion turned upon her a look of pity. “Oh, do you have to work as hard as that?” she exclaimed. “I sup posed that you only went into busi ness after your father, died so that you would not he entirely dependent upon your mother. Surety your father left her <’omfortably provided for, did he not?" “You Needn't Pity Me." For a moment Mary did not Iniwtr She woodtrid if Eliza beth Preston was really Ignorant of conditions, or if she was pretending not to know how matters stood. In either case, to tell her the truth was the best thing. Put it was with an effort that the weary girl spoke “My father left all he had to my mother Put he was unfortunate in business Just before he— he died You ate right in thinking I would not be dependent upon my mother. Put she has not die means to sup port us both even if I were willing to have her do so.” “Oh,” cooed Miss Preston. “you poor child! i am so sorry for you!” “Thank you, but you need not pity me at all,” retorted Mary testily. “I am not an object of pity. I have a position which I shall keep as long as I wish, W'hich will not be long Her temper was getting the better | of her discretion, but Elizabeth Preston’s patronage was unbearable * to her. She determined to say no more, but her companion's next i speech swept away her barriers of re serve. “It was very fine of you to take j that brave tone about it, Mary,” the rich girl remarked, “but your trouble | has told on you. You are looking | ten years older than when you left school. I wonder if my father might | not be able to get you an easier sit uation than you have now." “I shall not hold any position much longer.” said Mary, voice hard and eyes glittering. “I expect soon to change my entire mode of life ” The other girl eyed her shrewdly. “I suspect." she said in a tone that was meant to he playful, “that you are going to get married, my dear.” Mary shrugged her shoulders. "Perhaps!” she said nonchalantly. “Here we are at Eighth avenue, arid 1 must turn hack h"me. Good-bye,’” As she retraced her steps, indig nation gave place to Joyous anticipa tion. How strangely happy she was this evening! She remembered that Fletcher was going to call, and a sudden sense of distaste at the pros pect ot seeing him at this time sejzed ner. She would not let him come 8t< pplng into a hotel on the cornet of Eighty-first street, she called up Pearsons' office. When she had left the office Fletcher had been there with her employer, and the two had been smoking so comfortably that he might possibly he there still. She was not mistaken, and when Pearson an swered the telephone she asked for Mr. Fletcher. As briefly as possible she suggested to her would-be caller that she would prefer seeing him on some other evening. He submitted regretfully, but meekly, and she con gratulated herself upon the reprieve. Like a Phophecy. As the girl walked along Eighty- fourth street to her home, the glow in the western sky seemed to her excited imagination like a symbol 01 prophecy of happiness ahead of her. Surely there would be a letter await ing her! After all what did Elizabeth Preston's chatter matter when one's heart wan so full of peace? Even th sordid block on which she lived seemed less dingy and dirty than usual at this sunset hour. HHe pushed her way through the groups of janitors’ and tenants’ children playing on the front steps of the house in which she lived, and, hurrying into the vestibule, peered into the letter box bearing her name Yea. there was the envelope with Craig’s handwriting on It. She knew It would be here! With eager Angers she unlocked the letter box and drew forth her treasure. She could not wait until she got upstairs. The sight of the handwriting was like a draught of water to a thirsty soul. Tearing open the envelope, she pulled out the single sheet and read it by the dim light from the hall chande lier. Science By GARRETT P. SERVISS. C IVILIZED people lived In Enypt ten thousand years ago—so long ago that the North Star, which, from the days of the Phoeni cian navigators, when commerce was young, until our time, ha* guided ships at sea, was then many degrees from the pole of the heavens, while another and a brighter star glittered not far from the north jiolnt of the celestial sphere! The excavations recently made by Professor Petrie, of the British School of Archaeology, have established this fact, whjch must appear very aston ishing to those who still retain the old belief that the world Itself is only about fi.OOO years old! But such Investigations ns those of Professor P- trie carry th*- same over whelming conviction to the reasoning rnind as that which has caused all in telligent persons to accept the con clusions of geology concerning the millions upon millions of years that the earth has been inhabited bv h PAOE^* <§ Egypt a Hundred Centuries Ago Brought to Light at Tarkhan. ALABASTER TABLE OF FIRST DYNASTY AT GERZEH. ] _itt e Bobbie’s . By WILLIAM F. KIRK. Pa P A took Ma & me oaver to a lake yesterday ware thare is a lot of city boarders. Ma had a Trend oaver thare that used to call on um wen we lived in the city & Ma wanted to see her. The naim of Ma’s frend was Missus Mace. Her husband 1» a blsness man In the city & every Sommer he sends hie wife up to that lake so he can have a few weeks rest, & a good rlrru with the other men. How do you like it up here. Pa asked Missus Mace. Oh. I think it is dredfully poky, sed Missus Mace. Thare is at* few men nround. Book at them old cats set ting on the veranda & talking about pee pul. sne sed 1 bet every one ot them has ripped all of us up the back beefoar now. If tnv husband cud af ford It, 1 wud go to sum place ware thare is moar clai«s. They all look pritty good to me. sed Pa. Who are those two peaches netting on the end of the verandy? They are two young married wim- men, sed Missus Mace, iVt the way thay have been flirting at the* littel hops we have here is sumthing ter- ribul. Last nit* thay went out in a party* of young peepul & thare hus bands wasent along. The party dident git back till neertv mldntte. Well, sed Pa, what of it? 1 suppose thare husbands sent them up here to enjoy thernselfs with the young pec- pul. I wud deerly luv to have been In that party’ myself, sed Pa. I doant think you missed much. & thay are all the time talking about wh it deers thare husbands la. too, sed Missus* Mace. Wen I hear a young married woman talking so much about her good husband in the city, I always think thay are putting on a lot. A* last nite one of them kissed her husband's letter about twenty times wen she got it at the post office. What If she did? sed Pa. I think that wan vary sweet of her. You see Pa sed to MIhsuk Mace, she is yung & deevoted to her husband & he Is dee- voted to her I suppose if they was middle teed, like you & frend wife here, thay wud kies the money order Insted of the letter. That is the kind of letters you wimmen like. Pa sed the kind that wen you open them Mumthing blue pops out. Nothing of the kind, sed Ma and Missus Mace at onst. We are always glad to git letters frem our husbands wether thare is mutiny In the letters or cot. Well, sed Pa, you cud talk all day about those two young matrons & you euddent maik me beleeve thare was a rong thing about eether one of them. Why. sed Pa, that brunet one has a face like a angel. I shud like to meet them, Pa sed. Not so fast, sed Ma. Doant git so enthused all of a sudden. My frend Missus Mace has been here longer than we have and she ought to kno.v if the yung ladies she menshuns are flt company for uw I like to pick my own oumpany. sed Pa, & eeven If 1 thought 1 was git- ting simpel minded enuff to have sumbody pick my cumpany, 1 wouldn’t choose a old knocker lik»- vure friend Missus Mace to pick my Trends for me. You are not a gentleman, sed Misses Mace. 1 know it, sed Pa, 1 am a plain old rough-neck wich was all his life so buoy trying to see good in every body that he didn't have time to lern to be yure kind of a gentleman. 1 beleeve 1 will get sumbody to inter- duce me to them two yung matrons. How about it, wife? sed Pa. How about meeting the summer girls? All rite, sed Ma, sum other sum mer Advice to the Lovelorn -4- 4- T ANIMAL FIGURES AT MEMPHIS. Up-to-the-Minute Jokes She was hurriedly adjusting her 41, and had but a few’ moments in lich to catch her car. "Oh, dear," she murmured. “I can’t id a pin anywhere. 1 wonder where the pins go to, anyway?” "That's a difficult question to an- :er,” replied her practical husband, no was standing by, “because they p always pointed in one direction id headed in another." • • • A Yorkshireman suffering from othache went to a dentist to have e aching tooth out. The dentist died out the offending tooth, and • is then asked to pull out the dou- i e tooth next to it. "But that Is a sound tooth,” *said 1 e dentist. "The pain is only sym- j "Yank it out. doctor. Hang such j mpathy,” replied the Tyke. • * • A s^lLiilor called upuu a proles - Tvvo American farmers met a day or two after a cyclone had swept over their farms. “She shook things up pretty bad out at my place,” said one, stroking his whiskers, meditatively. “By The way, Hiram,” he added, “that new barn o' yourn get hurt at all?” “Wal,” drawled the other, “I dunno. I hain't found it yet!” « * • The Major—And there we stood, Miss Ethel, in the heart of the jun gle, that huge panther and I. barely r* n paces apart, each staring at the face of the other. Ethel -Oh. major, how dreadful for you both! 0 t * "Look here, Boxer, did you call me a common ass?” “Nu. Fopson. 1 said you were an uncommon ass.’’ “Aw, that’s different. I caw n’t stand having anybody call me com mon, y kflow." great variety of animals, some of who.se descendants, but little changed in their forms, are co-dwellers with us to-day upon this ancient planet. The nature of the excavations made by Professor Petrie in Egypt may be clearly seen in the photographs which are here reproduced. Works of Art. There you see the beautifully carved tables of stone and of alabaster, the animal figures, the sphinxes, the spec imens of pottery, and the granite sar cophagi, or coffins, which that won derful, prehistoric people made for themselves. There, too. you see some of the skeletons of the “sacred” animals which they honored with burial cere monies hardly less elaborate than those which were devoted to their kings, queens and rulers. Professor Petrie and his assistants have un covered not less than 800 ancient graves, rone of which are less than about **,000 years old. All of them tell the same story, viz: that so long ago as that men had hl- readv learned many of the arts which we often think are peculiar to times ineluded within the limits of written history. Tin y could not merely build strong and beautiful structures of masonry and carve statues and shape vases that excite the admiration of architects and artists to-day, hut they knew the use of the most precious metals, and formed exquisite orna ments of gold and silver. These things must set one to think ing. for we know that arts and sci ences are long in being developed, re quiring thousands of years, and that no civilization can grow up except as the result of many centuries of slow advance. How far back, then, shouM we have to go In order to find the real beginnings of Egypt? Ten thousand years must be but a step in that long march of human progress! Th' poles of the heavens may have swung more than once completely round their great 2t?.ft00-year orbit since th 1 land of the Nile began to bloom with cultivation, and Its human inhabitants started on their upward course. Nothing ran be more interesting than these delving* into the past his tory of the globe since man came upon it. and the farther that unwrit- ! ten. Hut still not unrecorded, history 1 stretches* back the more the wonder (grown, for every new discovery plung ing deeper into the ages shows that w e are yet far from the starting point. Had It Labeled. A miner, having a large piece of sticking piaster over the bridge of ! i- nose, went into a local public house. "Halloa!” breezily remarked the landlord. “Going for your holidays, Jim?" "Holidays? What holidays?” "Well, I see you’ve got your trunk labeled,” replied the landlord. At Holbeach (Lines) Parish Church, in order to get rid of a swarm of bats, sulphur was burned, and then the bell ropes were whirled round and round. In this way thirty-three bats were killed one evening. It has been calculated that nearly 300,000,000 feet, or over 55,000 mil- v of film are used un yearly to satisfy the world’s demand for moving pic tures. Half the men condemned to death are executed. In the case of women, only one out of ten suffers the death penalty. Rather Late. A man traveling in the country mot a middle-aged farmer who said his fa ther, 90 years old, was still on the farm where he' was born. “Ninety years old. eh?” “Yes, father is close to 90.” “Is his health good?” “ ’Tain’t much now. He’s been com plain n’ for a few months back.’’ “What’s the matter with him?” “I dunno; sometimes I think farm in’ don’t agree with him." Too Lazy. “Nodles is the laziest man I know. He has an invention Axed so that by merely pulling a wire In bed he can light the Are; but that doesn’t seem to improve matters.” “Why not?” "He’s too lazy to pull the wire.” By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. ARE YOU SURE? Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young lady 17 years of age and come in contact with a young man two years my senior. I know’ this man loves me, and his love is reciprocated. When we meet, we always act Indiffer ently. Now, in w hat way can we g“t together to keep company, as I know our parents would not object, and our friends are aware of the facts? ANTONETTE. It takes something more than the approval of parents and the knowl edge of mutual friends that they Jo approve to make a young man love a girl. I want you to have love; it is my fondest hope for you; but I don’t be lieve this man loves you. You say he always acts indifferently toward you. If he loved you, he wouldn’t do that, and you would not have to look for a way to win him. APPEAL TO THE POLICE. Dear Miss Fairfax: I kept company with a young man for three years and expected to be married in the spring. My parents objected to him. He was very jealous and never took me out or gave me anything. Last summer 1 became acquainted with a man eight years my senior. He takes me out and says he loves me. My folks like him and 1 love him very dearly. He wants to marry me. My first lover threat ens me when he hears I am go ing to get married. He writes letters and when I don’t answer he hangs around my house. PERPLEXED. A Jealous man like that is a dan gerous person to know. You mas; marry the second man. for he is ihe one you love, and you must put an * nd to all obnoxious attentions from the first man. If your father can nM help you, appeal to the authorities. NOT SURPRISING. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young girl of seventeen. About three months ago I met a young man of eighteen. We met by flirtation. When we had been acquainted about a month h e pro fessed his love for me, but since then he has been going with other girls and is very cool to me. L. M. Lightly won, lightly held. An ac quaintance that begins in flirtation usually terminates in the girl’s sor row. The man is convinced she will comfort herself with the next man who flirts with her, and holds her love lightly. Won’t you please be a little more reserved next time? TREAT HIM THE SAME. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 20, and have been keep ing company for about eight months. We had an argument and separated. Now for about two months we have been reconciled, hut he seems rather distant. What would you advise me to do? GWENDOLYN. Evidently his wrath is still smol dering, which indicates a sullen, re sentful disposition. Don’t worry, my dear, if you lose him. It will prove a gain in the end. Clever Hostess. A German band happened to play under the windows of a house in a fashionable neighborhood the other afternoon, when Mrs. B. was “at home.” They were a fair specimen of their kind—blaring and noisy, yet correct in their time and altogether in movement from long practice. The butler started out to drive them away, for they interrupted the music with in, but Mrs. B. ordered him to invite them in. A happy thought struck her. “Ladies and gentlemen,” she said, five minutes later, “a party of our friends have consented to give an im itation of a street band. I now have the pleasure of introducing them.” Then the six members of the organ ization filed awkwardly into place and played a piece. The audience delight edly declared that the mimicry was perfect, especially the make-up of the players, who w’ere recalled half a dozen times. “Would you take them for anything but genuine street stragglers?” was asked of a belle. “Indeed, yes,” she confidently re plied; “they’re clever in their mim icry, but one can always tell gentle men, no matter how disguised. I’m dying to find out who they are.” THE FOOL By WILLIAM F. KIRK. r R <lid tint know who font us hero To work and rent and die; lie did not trust the aged seer M ho trisclii owlrd the sky. Out peered the stars through the heavens’ bars; The fool did not know why. He could not tell why any man Should wish his brother ill; He saw a starving caravan Tottering up a hill. ITc could not see why this should be When others ate their fill. He could not understand the scheme Hen call their marriage rite. He knew a maid that loved and strayed; He knew her soul was white. The Church, her sisters, all the good— They crushed her in their might. All these and many other things He could not comprehend. To wise men here it seemed so clear They would have shown their friend; But he was just a fool, they said, And would he to the end. Good Manners in the Home By MRS. FRANK LEARNED. Author of “The Etiquette of New York To-day.” P ARENTS are conscious of the im portance of teaching their chil dren good manners, but very often they forget that children arc quick to detect inconsistencies. If the rarents fail to observe the courtesies they are trying to teach there will be uifficulty in instructing children. If parents are careful to thank chil dren for any little attention, if they ask a favor of them always fn cour teous terms, if they reply pleasantly tc their questions and never indulge in the rudeness of answering in mon osyllables or paying no attention to questions, then the children will learn to be careful in their own manners. Children imitate their parents in word and deed and are susceptible to the influence of their looks, voices and manners. Feel Resentment. The resentment children sometimes feel in being required to observe for mulas is because they find these things disregarded by older persons in the family. Parents, therefore, have to discipline themselves before they can train their children. This may sometimes require the courage to ac knowledge a mistake, for it is as im portant to say “I was mistaken,” or “I beg your pardon,” as to say “Thank you.” Conscientious parents know tha there can be no training in haphaz ard methods, or by laying down max ims and precepts, and that it is not by claiming to be infallible that they can hope to influence their children, but by showing that they are striving toward high standards of conduc t. I: the home atmosphere Is that of peace it is sure to promote contentment. If there is the everyday graeiousness speech and action the influence can not fail to foster kindness and con- siderateness. There will not be the mere superficial politeness, but the true graciousness of life, a grace which is deep and enduring. Home, in its true sense, is the training ground for life. The years ** home art most important because habits are being formed which will influence the entire future. It Is there that we learn to fill our place In re lation to others; there that we learn respect for authority and obedience to law and order. It is in the home that we learn in childhood the neces sity of self-control, the importance of truthfulness, dutifulness, unselfish ness. sympathies and courtesy. Wa learn to make concessions, to give up insisting on having our own way, and we learn to' look at things from the point of view of other people. High Ideals. Boys and girls who are taught high ideals of conduct in the home will no r fail to exercise kindness and cour tesy toward their companions. Ac they grow to manhood and woman hood they will feel bound to Show their best home training in their in tercourse with the world, out of re spect to themselves and the dear fam ily life. The home life may be but a memory, distant in the years, but the influence will never be lost. With the Boy. Willie—Mrfy I go and play now, ma? Mother—What? With those rag ged trousers! ' Willie—No; with the boy next door. Eckman’s Alterative FOR THE THROAT AND LUNGS. Eckman’s Alterative is effective in j Bronchitis. Asthma. Hay Fever, 1 Throat and Lung Troubles, and In ! upbuilding the system. Does not contain poisons, opiates or habit forming drugs. For sale by all lead ing druggists. Ask for booklet of cured cases and write to Eckman J Laboratory. Philadelphia, Pa., for al evidence. For sale by all { of Wffobs’ Drug Stores. 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