Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1905 — Page 6

Kelly By GRACE THOMSON 1 Copyright, 1805, by C. 11. Sutcliffe No doubt he had another name, but when the gray haired old cashier had tsked what his first name was he had explained that Kelly was enough. “If I tell you the rest, you'll be callin’ me some kid name, an’ I’m a man now.” he announced. “I’m goin'f earn tny own livin’.’’ The cashier whimsically entered him upon the payroll as ‘Mr. Kelly.’’ and so it had stood. Kelly had graduated to the dignity of ong trousers and considered himself a veteran in the service of Edge & button when Kathleen came, a dainty, sensitive little woman, fresh from business school and yet very much unversed in the ways of business. She won Kelly's heart by calling him ‘Mr. Kelly," and thereafter any of the boys who dared play a trick on the new typewriter invariably turned up at the sffice the next day with a bruised lip or i blackened optic. Few of them played more than one trick, for when be was out six Kelly could thrash any eight-year-old youngster on the block. Kathleen, all unmindful of his championship, merely noticed that the boys were better behaved, and told her mother that life in a business office was not as hard as she had supposed it would be. “It’s so very different from what we thought I should have to go through with," she explained, "and. the little Kelly boy is just a dear.” Later on, when Lutton began to take notice of the pretty typewriter, Katheen changed her mind, but she did not tell her n: r.her of the invitations to irives an,’, the theater. It was hard enough that Mrs. Lansing should be compelled to do without the luxuries to which she bad been accustomed during tier husband’s life without having to know that the money that procured their bare livelihood was earned at the tost of keeping silent under covert insult. Lutton wt cttce'dil not to make his overtures t>> p '•••nt. and only Kelly saw the little things which made Kathleen’s work so hard. She put aside his invitations with a quiet dignity that admitted of no argument, and Lutton, tiring at last of a campaign of courtesy, began to find fault. It was he who dictated most of the correspondence, and there were letters to be copied over because of some trivial mistake. Night after night Kathleen had to remain copying letters, with only Kelly for company. And when at last she sought the street she never knew that only Kelly's presence saved tier from further attention from Lutton, waiting in the case across the way. She thought it merely one of Kelly’s little courtesies, never suspecting that Kelly, idling at the window, had seen Lutton crossing the street and had divined his intentions. But while Kelly's presence saved her from trouble in one way it increased her burden in another, for Lutton. smarting under his rebuff, grew more vindictive. The firm was in a pool in Y. and M. G., and the operations were conducted from the office. Somehow in spite of caution some facts leaked out prematurely, and the whole operation resulted in a crash from which the firm barely escaped with a whole credit. The whole office was uneasy. That there was a suspicion that some of the clerks were believed to be guilty of treachery was apparent, but Joint Edge would not have any one discharged until his guilt was proven. “We must be careful for awhile.” he had said to Lutton, when the latter urged wholesale dismissals, "but if we let every one out we could never again command the confidence of our employees.” Lutton let the matter drop, but when it was decided to make a raid on Memphis preferred and the news reached the exchange almost bes we the conference :Token up, ev :i the senior partner w.forced to admit.that something must be dime. Lui;.in very promptly discovered that Kat hi uln Ia ■ sto ail curf’csponderice of the firm and that it must have liecu she who in sr.ae maimer had gained the knowledge that had resulted in a gain of thousands to some one on the outside. Even then Edge did not want to work on circumstantial evidence. “Take it easy. George.” lie urged. “Watch her carefully, but do not dismiss her.” And Lutton had smiled under his heavy mustache. lie had an idea that he could kill two birds with a single stone. “That red ueaded kid seems pretty thick witii the typewriter,” he said. "I shouldn’t be surprised if they worked -together. You remember he brought a telegram in just as that Memphis deal -was put through.” ■•Kelly’.'” said Edge. "Why, he's a part of the office.” “All the same. I could show you”— Edge waved a protesting hand. He could not believe in the guilt of any one in the office. "Very well.” he said wearily, “I leave the matter to you.” That afternoon Kathleen waited after closing time to finish off her book. Kelly, as usual, constituted himself her escort, but ho could not resist the temptatiou to steal across the street to get the baseball scores. Lutton was there when he came back. Kelly heard him before he opened the door and stood for a moment in the hall. “So you see,” Lutton was saying. “I can dismiss you, and you will leave under suspicion of having betrayed your employers. You can’t get a job after that. I fancy. you say you’ll take

m .... ue.ieu luis i-icuaig or 111 let you out tomorrow—you and that brick topped kid. Now, give me a kiss and say you'll go.’ There was a sound of a struggle, and Kelly burst into the room. “You quit that!” he said hotly. "I'm wise to you, ail right, and you make trouble and I’ll tell on you.” “Mr. Edge won’t believe you,” sneered Lutton. “No,” but your wife will.” was the retort, Lutton made a dive for Kelly, and the boy dodged. There was a chase around the table until Lutton, realizing that he was cutting no dignified figure, stalked out. At the door he paused for an instant. “I was just joking about dismissing you, Miss Lansing.” he said. "I beg that you will pardon me. We will say nothing more about it.” The door slammed and Kelly gravely executed a double shuffle. "To a standstill." he cried joyously. "You come on home. I guess Lut won’t kick if those letters don't go out tonight. If he says anything I'll fix it.” There was a conference the following afternoon, and Kelly, as bis work took him in and out of the room, seemed bursting with excitement. Several times he eyed Lutton with a glitter of triumph in his eye, and Lutton felt uncomfortable. At last a decision was reached, and Sears, the head of the pool, looked around the table. “Then it is agreed that we run Tennessee Southeastern up to 96?” he said. There was a murmur of assent. “We should make a twentypoint profit.” he continued, “unless there is a leakage.” There was a crash from the window, an 1 Lutton. who had gone over to ad just the shade, turned toward them with the cord in his b ind. "There ain’t no leakage this time," announc ‘d Kelly jubilantly. 1 tacked the shade down.” "What do you moan,” demanded Edge. For answer Kelly led him to the window. “See Cunningham’s windows across the way?” he asked. “Mr. Lutton signals with the curtain. I got it out of one of Cunningham's clerks. Cunningham buys or sells according to how Lutton tells him, and they divide. They made twenty thou, apiece out o that Memphis deal. Then he tried to blame Miss Kathleen for it.” Half an hour later the discredited Lutton was leaving the office in which he was no longer a partner. He met Kelly coming in. “I suppose you think Miss Lansing will marry you now?” he answered. “No such luck.” said Kelly placidly. "She’s goin' to be hitched to a lawyer chap uptown. ' 6 Rcbniccl From the Pulpit. Preaching in Westminster abbey Canon Wilberforce told a good story of the celebrated Welsh preacher, Christmas Evans, who dared publicly to express his thankfulness for Jenny Lind's beautiful singing. A member of his congregation, a straitlaced Calvinist, standing on the steps of -the pulpit, asked the preacher whether a man dy ing at one of Jenny Linds concerts would go to heaven. “Sir,” replied Mr. Evans, "a Christian will go to heaven wherever he dies, but a fool remains a fool even on the pulpit steps.” Even the sober abbey congregation could hardly stifle its enjoyment of this repartee. Bu lion's Ch im pa usee. The English Illustrated .Magazine says that "Buffon had a chi: inzee in 1740 which always walked t; • ght, offered people his arm. walked with them in an orderly manner, sat down to ta ble like a man, opened his napkin and wiped his lips with it, made use of spoon and fork, poured out wine and clinked glasses.” Sizing; Him Up. “I believe I can truthfully say,” remarked the self complacent man, "that I have only one fault, and that’s a small one.” “Yes,” replied the candid man “That's just like the hole in a nickel. It may be a small hole, but it makes the nickel no good.*’—Philadelphia Press. Subjnissi ve. • “What would you do. Henry.” asked Mrs. Johnston, “if burglars got into the house?" “Do?” replied her husband. “I suppose I would just do what they told me. I’ve never had my own way in this house yet.” It is often easier to serve two masters than to master two servants.— Philadelphia Record. Man and liar Dotr. We are alone, absolutely alone, on this chance planet, and amid all the terms of life that surround us not one. excepting the dog. has made an alliance with us. A few creatures fear us, uost are unaware of us and not one loves us.—From a Maeterlink Essay. Supplied n Deficiency. Mr. Goodman —James, the gentleman you gave as reference tells me you're not very truthful. Jimmy (the office hoy)—Well, say, yer sieh a truthful guy yersei’ yer need an ablebodied liar like me round dcr place.—Philadelphia Press. Too Mucii Xotliinc. “This cheese is full of holes.” complained the prospective purchaser. “Yes, sir,” said the proprietor. "That’s right.” “Haven't you got *ne wfh the holes full of cheese —Louisville CourierJournal HI« Wnc Ecrnnrnt. *T say, Jenkins, Tro in a temporary embarrassment. Can you lend me $10?” “Only a temporary embarrassment? You're much luckier than I am.”— Translated For Tales From Fliegende Blatter.

OLD BANBURY TOWN IT HAS SEEN MANY STIRRING EVENTS IN ENGLISH HISTORY. The Celebrated Place Is, However, More Famous For Its Ithymcs and Itw Cakes Than For Its Part In the Affairs of State. Would you not think, if you found the following lines, ES ROHK CO CAED IF.! Seogeh sreve ereli weisume vahl lah sehs se otreh nos llebdnas regni freh nos gnires rohycr canoed iryd ale nifae esots sorcy rub nabot es rohk co caed ir, that you had discovered some quaint old Runic rhyme or a verse in some language so ancient that it would take an antiquarian to decipher it? That was exactly what an enthusiastic band of archaeologists did think one time, so the.story goes, when they found this inscription cut in the cornerstone of a very old building in Banbury, England. These gentlemen were on the lookout for just such quaint old bits, and you can imagine how excited they were over this when they discovered it. “This is certainly prehistoric Welsh.' said they and took it straightway tc the president of the archaeological society- to which they belonged. He rubbed his hands softly and smiled. "This discovery is something quite worth while,” he said. And all. these wise gentlemen felt very virtuous as they wrinkled their brotvs and wondered what story or what great secret the queer old words would unfold. But they puzzled in vain. They could not read it, so then they telegraphed to a widely known professor of dead languages, asking him to translate it for them. Very soon the return message arrived, and all clustered around the president to hear the telegram. “Read backward,” it suggested, “and when it is deciphered it will be found to be a well known rhyme.” So it is as you see for yourselves, and these wise gentlemen found that a fine hoax had been played upon them. You all know how it goes: Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross To see a fine lady upon a gray horse; Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes. She shall have music wherever she goes Banbury is best known the English speaking world over by this nursery rhyme, although, as a matter of fact, this famous little town is in the heart of a country that lias seen many stirring times in English history. It is in Oxfordshire, seventy-seven miles from London. One of the first conflicts known to have taken place there was that in 556 between Cymric, king of the West Saxons, and the Britons. Later, during the wars of the roses (1442-41), It was besieged, and again in 1644 and 1646, during the struggle between the parliamentary troops and the arms. It was here that the leaders of Cromwell's forces discussed and perfected many of their plans, and it was ■ here that some of the fiercest conflicts were waged. Battlefields are shown in many places near by. and every village for miles around can display something of historic.;i interest either in Roman reties or of the civil wars. The hundreds of dramatic or tragic stories that are told by the people woul-.l fill many volumes. Mother Goo has. however, been quite as valuable as history in keeping green the name of Banbury, and to a student of tl.e immortal nursery rhymes it is interesting to observe how many of them are founded on fact, record quaint customs or mention real places or people, eveh though not absolutely accurate historically. The procession of the fine lady of the rings and bells mentioned in the rhyme takes place each year in Banbury with considerable ceremony. The lady is usually mounted on a white horse, however. The presort cross, which stands at the top of High street, in a wide open space at the junction cf four crossroads, is an ornate affair. with a stei‘p’.‘. point, erected in 1859 near the site of the old Banbury cross, it common., orates tlie marriage ’of the Ir.te Emperor Frederick 111. of German.' to t’.'.e princess royal of England cm Jan. 25. 1858, and is decorated with tlie arms of Banbury, those of 11;..- German em peror, of Queen Victoria iin.l of Severn’ other sovereigns, earls, knights. bi.-a ops and vicars. One more thing m ikes Banbury fa mous, and that is its cakes, which are known throughout the kingdom. They are said to have been introduced in 1608. Banbvr.v cakes are undeniably delicious tidbits of pastry. They must be eaten when quite fresh, preferably at Banbury town itself. They are like extremely rich turnovers, filled with a mince of fruits, which melts delectably down one’s throat and causes a pronounced sensation of desire for more. There is a rivalry in the bakeshops as to which is the really true, original one. Who knows? Perhaps the cakes are. after all, the real Queen of Hearts’ tarts!—Millicent Olmsted in St. Nicholas. Graveyard Marriagea. A strange custom prevails among a certain tribe in the Caucasus. When a single young man dies, some one calls upon a bereaved parent who has carried to the grave a marriageable daughter in the course of a year and says: g’Your son is sure to want'a wife. I’ll give you my daughter, and you shall deliver to me the marriage portion in return.” A friendly offer of this desefiption is never rejected, and the two parties soon come to terms as to the amount of the dowry, which varies according to tlie advantages possessed by the girl in her lifetime. Cases have been known where the young man’s father Las given as much as thirty cows to secure a dead wife for his dead son.

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