Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1907 — Page 2

'Aily. By M. J. PHILLIPS. Copyright, 1907, by M. M. Cunningham.

Attired tor the opera. Morgan Tremaine stepped into the elevator at the twelfth floor of the Alameda, where he had his apartments. “Good evening. Daniel O’Connell Moloney,” he said gravely to the knickerbockered and freckled elevator boy. , Daniel O’Connell grinned cheerfully and whistled through a gap in his front teeth byway of reply. They were sworn friends, the two. At the tenth floor the car stopped, and the door slid back. Tremaine removed his hat ceremoniously. Mrs. Aiderton Ten Eyke. also tbeaterward bound, large and determined in appearance, marched in. At sight of the young attorney she sniffed, a slight, ladylike, well bred sniff, but nevertheless a sniff. Miss Marjorie Ten Eyke, young and slender, dark eyed and lovable. followed her mother. She did not look at Tremaine, but the faintest hint of added color appeared for a moment in her smooth cheeks. Arthur Benscoter, caressing a fiercely upturned mustache, which emphasized his sparse five feet five, brought up the rear. Sixty-five inches are not impressive, but a hundred thousand dollars for every inch of it is rather a good average, which the militant Mrs. Ten Eyke fully appreciated. So did Tremaine, with a hungry glance at his lovely former fiancee. When one is a struggling lawyer, Just beginning to see light ahead after a two years’ battle with callous New York, one gives due consideration to a half dozen millions, especially when the other fellow has them; - , “Two months of It,” mused Tremaine mournfully, despite his Jaunty bearing, when he had reached the street “Two months without a look or a nod or a smile—because I danced too much with that little Rivers girl! I was a fool to do It and a fool to quarrel over It with Mbs. Ten, on the lookout for Mammon every minute. In her eyes I am a ‘briefless barrister,’ as the English novels say. And little Benscoter isn’t a man; he’s Just a bank—and a mustache. Marjorie can’t like the fellow. Still constant pressure will have its effect sooner or later. If only something would come up to break the ice,” and Tremaine got so Interested in fmag-

iewwm Ifi 11 IsSlI ; P' I' 1 I W I THE CAE SEEMED TO DBOP FROM BENEATH ' THEIR FEET. ining perilous situations for the fair Marjorie, with himself as the rescuing 1 hero, that he walked three squares beyond his theater. The next morning he overslept and 1 rushed to the elevator with an important engagement almost due. 1 , “In a hurry, D. O’C. Moloney," he admonished the youth at the controller. “I’m so late now I haven’t time to speak your full name.” Daniel O’Connell grinned and Imitated a steam calliope by whistling shrilly through the gap in his teeth. With apparent carelessness he consulted the indicator board. There was no one ■waiting to descend. Stealthily he fumbled with the levers—swish! The car dropped fifty feet like a dead weight before Tremaine could move a muscle. Gasping for breath, of which the swift descent deprived him, he pictured an awful death when the car should strike toe bottom of the shaft But the mad rush was checked as suddenly as It had begun, and the elevator finished its journey to the ground floor at a pace approved by all sensible and well regulated lifts. A glimpse of Daniel O’Connell’s grinning face in the mirror made all clear. “You young rascal!” ejaculated toe lawyer as he caught his breath. “You j did that on purpose!" “Well,” retorted the boy, skipping nimbly out of reach, as he threw the door open, “you said youse was to a hurry!” Ten minutes later the pedestrians on Sixty-fourth street were much edified to see a good looking young man stop suddenly, slap his thigh resoundingly aid laugh aloud. Thereat a fat policeman hastily conned oyer in a some- i what fat mind the list of those “want-'" ed” at headquarters that day. A newsboy on the wing paused long enough to shout “Bugs!” before he swooped on again, to all of which Tremaine, joyously absorbed In a great a stupendous Idea, paid not the slightest attention. His high spirits were mysteriously

communicative. That evening' Daniel O’Connell, in, an endeavor to outdo previous calliope performances, almost blew a tooth out His small chest was puffed like a pouter pigeoif as he laid a crisp five dollar aote in the lap of his mother. • *••••• The wintry afternoon was closing as Miss Ten Eyke, in a house gown which to the masculine eye made her beauty simply bewildering, called the elevator to the fourteenth floor of .the Alameda. She had spent the afternoon with a girl friend, and as the car stopped her heart beat a lithe more rapidly over a certain possibility—that she might encounter Tremaine—for Miss Marjorie was very much in love with the young lawyer, despite their quarrel. She invariably explained to herself at this annoying quickening of the pulses that it was fear, not hope, which made her feel so. Daniel O’Connell approved of Miss Marjorie. She had nice eyes and a friendly way of looking at “a feller.” Sometimes they talked—about elevators and books and a guy not having any chance to go to school and how it was a good thing to study nights. He was a stanch little partisan, too. and talked of his friends of the other sex, chief of whom was Mr. Tremaine. And, although when the conversation turned on the lawyer it usually became a monologue, Miss Marjorie was a good listener. Her eyes would grow soft, and she would sigh a little. One day when Daniel O’Connell gleefully told of a case which Tremaine had just won she gave him a quarter. “Down!” said a masculine voice, and Miss Ten Eyke’s fear—or hope—was realized. The car stopped at the twelfth floor for Mr. Tremaine. •He removed his hat with that air of impersonal courtesy which is so, Annoying when a person Is willing to accept an overture of peace. Os course she had returned his ring and sent back his notes unopened and refused to speak to him, but that was two whole months ago. Why couldn’t he have been more persistent? Didn’t he know a girl could change her mind? Oh, dear! The tenth floor, and he wasn’t going to even look— Swish! The car seemed to drop from beneath their feet. They were falling! An agonized vision flashed into Marjorie’s mind, a vision of herself lying crushed and broken at the bottom of the shaft. With a cry which struck remorse to the hearts of the plotters, she turned to Tremaine, hands outstretched. “Morgan, dear, save me!” And when Tremaine had gathered her protectlngly Into his arms Daniel O’Connell neatly caught the cable again. *••• * ' * * Mrs. Ten Eyke was spending the evening in Brooklyn, and by the glowing grate Marjorie and Tremaine planned the wedding down to the last bridesmaid. “I’d like to have Daniel Moloney there, too, dear,” said the young man. “He’s a—a sort of accomplice of mine —that is,” hastily, “a pal. He’s going to be my office boy after the Ist of the month.”

“Daniel shall be there,” replied Marjorie warmly as she nestled more closely to his shoulder. “I just love that boy! You don’t know how much he thlqks of you, Morgan' I’m so glad he’s to be”—she hesitated a little and blushed charmingly over the pronoun —“our office boy. It would hardly seem natural if he wasn’t there.” Morgan winked at a particularly knowing coal in the grate. “Darling,” he said impressively, “it wouldn’t be a wedding without him.” Two and Three Letter Names of God. There are thirteen known languages and dialects in which the name of the Deity is expressed in two letters—viz: Hebrew, Al; Simonian, El; Chinese, Fo; Hindoo-Syr, le; Babylonian, H; Sanskrit, Ja; Egyptian, Ju; Tamil, Ko; Yocatanese, Ku; Hindoo, Om; Far East Hebrew, On; Egyptian, Ra; Chaldean, Ur. The three lettered name is found in twenty-one languages and provincial dialects—viz: East Indian, Aom; Hindoo, Aum; Chaldean, Bll; Slavonic, Bog (a contraction of “Biali-Bog,” meaning white); Roman, Dea; Grecian, Deo; Essequibo, Dia; Hindoo, Div; Chaldean, Enu; English, God; Swedish and Danish, Gud; Persian, Hom; Hindoo, Hua; Phoeni-cian-Babylonian, iau; Sanskrit, Jah; Phoenician, Jao; Druldish-Irish, Job; Egyptian, Kue; Irish-Celtic, Omh; Egyptian, Pan, and Latin, SoL Taken all together, there are 178 languages and dialects In which as a figure of speech God Is expressed in words, but in none of them Is the word of overgrown proportions, the longest being “Jaobullon,” a word which exi pressed the Deity idea according to a certain sect of Irish Druids, known as “mistletoe eaters.” ]A Bit Too Quick. The Hospitable Jon Jons —Yes, we're to the same old place where you dined with us last year. By the bye, old man, I wish you and your wife would come and dine with us again on the— The Impulsive Binks (in the eagerI ness of his determination never again to dine with the Jonjonses)— My dear fellow, so sorry, but we’re engaged on the a on the —er —on th-th-that even- ; ing. Poor Jonjons (pathetically)—Well, old man, you might have given me time just to name the day.—London Express. J Her Recommendation. A girl working as a servant told the housewife, “I’m going away, mom.” Said the woman. indignantly: “Suppose some one writes me for a recommendation. what shall I tell them?” Said the girl: “Tell them, mom, I stood it with you for a week. That , recommend good enough for me.".

B A LEGACY. |i [Original.] “My son,” said the old man as he lay dying, “I have nothing to leave you but a recipe for gaining the confidence of your fellow men. Confidence is the basis of all that leads bn to fortune, and if you follow my advice explicitly you will be prosperous and perhaps prominent The advice is this: “Don’t expose your ignorance or stupidity. Never give an opinion. Look wise and say nothing.” Irving Shadrac, the legatee to this meager fortune, was Impressed. Indeed, he began to act on the advice at once. His father had but one intimate friend, a man doing a large business. He called upon Irving and asked him to express his wishes concerning the funeral. Irving looked at him as though he had been asked the question of his life. He made no reply. He seemed to be considering. “If you like,” said his questioner, “I will attend to everything for you.” Irving pressed his hand without speaking. The funeral arrangements were well attended to, and John Andrews of the firm of Andrews & Co. was proud of his success in having arranged a very impressive ceremony. When he met the son after it was all oyer and asked how he was pleased with his management, Irving looked unutterable gratitude. It occurred to him to tell Mr. Andrews why he so approved of the arrangements; but, lest he hit on what Mr. Andrews considered the principal feature, he held his peace. “There’s good stuff in that boy,” said the merchant. “I must get him into my counting room. He’ll never go off half cocked. He’ll never slop over.” Irving became one of the lowest order of clerks in the house of Andrews & Co. Whenever it was necessary sor 1 him to go into the private office of the head of the firm he did what was necessary, but did not speak. He looked as if he were carrying in bis head a solution of all the various problems that beset the welfare of the business. Noticing this, Mr. Andrews on one or two occasions, in order to test ,him, submitted to him some business question and asked him what he would do in the matter. Irving at once put on his visible thinking cap.. Mr. Andrews asked him a leading question, which gave away his own opinion. Then Irving told him the way the thing should be Andrews’ own way. • ‘ ; Shadrac was made chief clerk and then became a partner. Meanwhile he was following his father’s bequest in every department of life. If a gathering of citizens met to discuss the water supply, he appeared to be doing the thinking for the meeting, but nev- ■ er opened his mouth. If the vestry-, men of his church discussed a ques-' tlon of finances, he, a member,, looked at the ceiling thoughtfully and if asked for his opinion said, “I’m thinking.” Before the meeting broke up he had learned what the majority wished and advocated it with every appearance of having reached the conclusion by profound deliberation. When it was proposed to send Irving Shadrac to congress he really thought for the first time In his life, the subject of his deliberation being whether he could best serve his own purposes by remaining in business or going into politics. He decided for the latter and went to congress. There he never opened his mouth. But he was a true American, going always with the majority. Other congressmen had views which they fought for. Shad-, rac had no views except such as Were indicated by his dignified and thoughtful appearance. Fortunately, for him he was getting bald and looked older than he was. A man who never made mistakes, who was always on the right side of every question—he could never be on the wrong side except in a vote, and then he had the majority with him —could not but grow In importance, and Congressman Shadrac stepped in time from the house of representatives into the senate chamber. One day the president sent for him. Shadrac responded and sat down with the nation’s chief, an expression on his face. indicating that he was ready to solve even the question of the Panama canal. “Senator,” said the president, “a portfolio In my cabinet is about to become vacant.” Shadrac was sitting with his right leg over. hls left. He immediately changed, putting his left over his right. He appeared to be ready to cohslder the various names concerning which the president would ask his preference. “I find that your state Is behind in the list of Important government posts and that there Is such confidence in the soundness of your views on all Issues of pith and moment that I have determined to offer you the portfolio. Will you accept it?” Shadrac knit his brows, drew down the corners of his mouth, changed legs,. put his hand up to his forehead, but. made no reply. “Silence gives consent,” said the president. “I shall send your appointment to the senate at onee.” Thus It was that Irving Shadrac by acting upon the legacy bequeathed to him by his father became a member of the president’s cabinet. And, now that they are hunting for a man to put in the president’s place, political managers are saying: “What we want is a man to Inspire the confidence of the nation. Look at Secretary Shadrac’s record. He has been identified with every important question that has been before the nation in twenty years and has never made a mistake. What better man can we put up in 1908? .■ ■■ ■ JJ-A-AIITCHEL. .

I ’ Napoleon and thaLettar M. ! Marboeuf was the first to recognize ' the genius of Napoleon at the Ecole Milltaire. Marengo was the greatest j battle gained by Bonaparte, and Melas opened to him the way to Italy. Mori tier was onerof his first generals, Mo- ! reau betrayed him, and Murat was the first martyr to his cause. Maria Louise ! partook of his highest destinies, Mos- , cow was the abyss in which he was engulfed, Metternich conquered him on the field of diplomacy. Six marshals— Massena, Mortier, Marmount, MacDonald, Murat and Moncey—and twentysix of his generals of divisions had names beginning with the letter M. M. Murat, duke of Bassino, was the counselor in whom he placed the greatest confidence. His first great battle was that of Montenotte; his last was that of Mount St. Jean. He gained the battles of Moscow, Montmirail and Montereau. Then came the assault of Montmartre. Milan was the first enemies’ capital and Moscow the last in which he entered. He lost Egypt through the blunders of Menoa and employed Miollis to-make Pius VIII. prisoner. Malet conspired against him; afterward Marmont His ministers were Maret, Montalivet and Mollien. His first chamberlain was Montesquieu, his last sojourn Malmaison. He gave himself up to Captain Maitland: He had for his companion at St. Helena Montholon and for valet Marchand. I A Crimean Incident. Many are the deeds of heroism recorded In Sir Evelyn Wood’s story of his rise “Frojn Midshipman to Field Marshal,” but none more thrilling than . an Incident of the fighting in the Crimea. “Look out! ‘Whistling Dick!’" was the warning that was shouted one day, and at the call, which referred to a certain huge mortar which had been shelling them, every one in hearing rushed for shelter. All succeeded in gaining the trenches except young , Blewltt of H. M. S. Queen. Him the spent shell caught under the knees and pinned to the ground. “Stephen, Stephen,” he called to Stephen Welch, “do not leave me to die!” The fuse of the thirteen Inch shell was hissing, but Welch did not hesitate a second. “Come on, lads! Let’s try!” he shouted and, leaping from the trench, began tugging with all his strength at the big mass of Iron. At that instant It burst, and of neither man was a fragment seen again. Street Cars In Brazil. “There are first and second class street cars,” writes a tourist, describing his South American travels, “and I, with a package in my arms, had taken a first class bond, as a street car is called In Rio de Janeiro. Scarcely had I done so when the conductor requested me to transfer to a second class car I whenever it might come along, because no one is allowed to carry any- ' thing greater than a lap satchel first class. So I humbly descended and had either to mix with market women and sweaty laborers or to take a tilbury. A person without a necktie is no more allowed first class on the street than was I with my parcel. They are decidedly particular in Brazil and inherit many fastidious ways from the time of the empire, when dress and manners were the mark separating the aristocracy from the working classes.” Forgiveness. Nothing is more moving to man than the spectacle of reconciliation. Our weaknesses are thus Indemnified and are not too costly, being the price we pay for the hour of forgiveness, and the archangel, who has never felt anger, has reason to envy the man who subdues it. When thou forgivest, the man who has pierced thy heart stands to thee in the relation of the sea worm that perforates the shell of the mussel, which straightway closes the wound with a pearl.—Jean Paul Richter. Ears of Animals. The ears of tigers, foxes, wolves,' cats and other beasts of prey bend forward, while the ears of animals of flight, such as hares, rabbits, deer, etc., bend backward. This is because the ears of beasts of prey are designed for the purpose of collecting sounds in the direction taken by the animal in pursuit of Its prey. The ears of an animal of flight, by turning backward, enable it to hear the sounds made by a- - _ < Fire Apparatus. Jamie Boutar loved to poke the fire and Invariably ended by putting it out, greatly to his wife’s disgust While at supper one evening the fire alarm rang, and Jamie, seizing his cap, was hastening out when his wife ran to the door and called after him, “Hadna you better tak’ the poker wie you, Jamie?”—Short Stories. Tha Two Classes. It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who said most truthfully, “The human race Is divided into two classes—those who go ahead and do something and those who* sit and Inquire why it wasn’t done the other way.” Quite a Difference. Small Edna—Oh. look at those cows! * Small Nellie—They’re not cows. They i are calves. Small Edna—But what's the difference? Small Nellie—Cows . give beef and calves give veal cutlets. —Chicago News. | His Inference., i Marks—Say. old man', did I ever tell you about the awful fright I got on my wedding day? Parks—S-sh! No man should speak that way about his wife. —Boston Transcript. • —————— i It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms. —Terence. (

OLD R!VER GAMBLERS How the Cotton Planters. Made the Sharpers Disgorge. A DRAMATIC GAME OF POKER. The Hand That Brought Matters to a Climax and the Way It Was Played ,to a Finish on a Floating Gambling Palace on the White River; In the palmy days of steamboating there were some palatial gambling houtier which were run on houseboats. They plied the inland streams, stopping for days and weeks at points where the territory was promising and good play could be had, moving on when the territory was cleaned out and all of the “pigeons plucked.” An interesting story was told by & veteran river captain of an incident happening to a floating gambling house that was accustomed to travel up and down White river in Arkansas and fleece the opulent planters and river men by methods that were not at all in keeping with the rules of the game. The incident in question occurred at. Indian Bay, Ark., then a prosperous village. At that time Indian Bay was a thriving metropolis, where all of the river packets landed to receive and discharge freight and passengers and where the planters of the fertile White river bottom lands came to buy their supplies and receive their mail, it being the only postoflice in a large territory. The houseboat, which was fitted up in palatial style, with gambling rooms after the most approved fashion and a bar that would compare favorably in the magnificence of its mahogany fixtures with those of the best city hotels of the same period, was owned and run by two brothers. It was the days of freeze out poker, when stakes were as high as one cared 1 to play and where one player could take the pot without a show down if be only had sufficient coin to lay more upon the table than his opponents could muster. The brothers scorned the customary house men that gambling places employ and participated themselves in all of the games that were started. As a rule, they played a game ostensibly fair, but It was whispered about that they were more deft with the cards than was accredited to them by their victims, for they always won. With persons of consequence they were careful of *thelr plgy and to all appearances held strictly within the letter of the code which gamblers were supposed to observe. But with those of lesser Importance they were not so particular, and they resorted to any means to part the unwary from his cash. It was a well known fact that the game never ran too high for them, and rumor had It that there was a for-, tune in toe big safe of the private office of the brothers which opened off the Bar. There was a lanky Arkansas planter of uncertain ancestry who lived near Indian Bay, and this particular fall he harvested and sold a large cotton crop, realizing therefrom some SIO,OOO, which he, as was then the custom, brought back from New Orleans, where he marketed his cotton, In cash. He was one of the regular victims of the brothers of the magnificent gambling houseboat and had contributed many dollars before this to the pile of coins stored away in the big safe. Straightway upon his return to the bay he sought out the light fingered gentry of the houseboat and, with a few neighboring planters to fill out, started a big poker game, which waned and waxed and grew apace through several days and nights,-throughout all of which time the lanky, planter saw his cotton money dwindle away In a steady stream across the table to the opulent pile qf chips before the brothers. So steadily did he lose that his suspicions became aroused, and on’ the evening Os the last day which the boat was to remain at the bay, for the brothers had announced the time of their departure, he sat In the game . fully satisfied that he was dealing with card sharks, and his mind made up to secure a square deal at any cost The grand coup of the houseboat brothers was to bide their time until a victim had secured an invincible hand, doubtless of their own fixing, and then after luring him on by tantalizing bets and raises to place upon the table every cent he possessed, to raise him further, bringing out a sackful of gold from the inexhaustible supply of the safe for that purpose. It had been a good season for the planters, excellent crops and high prices for cotton giving to all ample funds, and the brothers had reaped a rich harvest At Indian Bay alone they had cleaned up, something over $50,000. On this last night of their stay they expected to gather In the small leavings which had thus far escaped them. Two big games were going, each seven handed, all oft the losing planters, having flocked in for a last attempt to recoup their ! losses. | The lanky planter was the heaviest loser in the neighborhood, and he had j posted his companions of his suspicions and cautioned them to watch | carefully the play of the brothers,, one I of whom presided at either table. He I had planned his espionage with exceeding care and had given explicit instructions to his friends to watch merely and say nothing, whatever they might discover, until he gave an agreed signal. I Steadily the luck ran against him until alang toward 1 o’clock in the morniqg he picked up a hand contaln- . ing four aces—as the game was then

i played a hand that could not be beaten. He opened the pot with a good stiff I bet, which was promptly seen by the I other players until It came the turn of the gambler, who sat at the planter’s 1 i ' light. The gambler set in a stack of * yellow chips, each worth S2O, many inches in height. The planter, of course, saw toe bet and raised for all the money he had before him.. All the other ■ players threw down their cards except the gambler, who, calling tq a negro porter and whispering a .word In his ' ear, eat in stolid indifference until the 1 porter returned with a heavy stack of gold stenciled slo,ood. This.he promptly shoved to the center of the table, turning with a sneering smile to the planter and requesting hiin to see the bet or lose the pot This was just the play the planter had anticipated, the grand coup which the brothers had employed with suc-cess-at more than one pjhee alongjthe. j river, for such were the rules of | freezeout poker. The lanky plant&p' reached down into the pocket of his| coat as if going after a roll of money. Instead he gave the preconcerted sig- -j nal and came up with a six shooter, ’ cocked and sighted fairly ,at the bead ' of the gambler. As If but one mind controlled their moVeinents, all the other players, except toe two brothers, / produced in a flash long, hungry look-A Ing six shooters. It ,was a tense moment; not a soul seemed to breathe. The lanky planter was the master of the situation, and he appreciated the fact.’ Without moving from his seat or shifting the aim of his murderous looking revolver he y . palled to the men at the other table,/ asking if they had seen anything ques/ tionable in the play. Two of the plant? J ers had seen the brothers slip cards’ from the bottom of the .deck, and one, ' who had been busily counting the deck r 1 of cards upon the table since the denouement as unconcernedly as If a J tragedy was not |n progress In the (I room, now announced that the deck I was short four cards and that the four U aces were the missing ones. The 1 brother at that table was searched, J and the four missing aces were found fl in a little pocket inside his sleeve. I At the other table several crooked I plays had been detected. A close ex- j amination of both decks showed that! they were skillfully marked-, and the! 1 four aces were found to be what gam- 1 biers technically call “st.-:p>ors.” Each of the planters produced memo- 1 randum books In which had been kept® a careful account of their losses] throughout their play bn the house-® boat. Altogether these losses totaled® $78,000. Leaving the table for a mo-1 ment and forcing one of the trembling® negro attendants to open the big safe® at the muzzle of his revolver, thf® lanky planter returned loaded dowi® with sacks of gold and bundles ofl greenbacks. This array of wealth he| piled upon the table and, appointing a.l grim guard for each of the gamblers, 1 carefully sorted out the money Into 1 piles of SI,OOO each. Then he made a I reckoning of each man’s losses audM paid to each one the sum his memo- I randum book showed. | After distributing to each man what I was due to him and carefully counting I out his own money, something more I than $15,000, he turned to the brothers, I now thoroughly cowed and trembling, I fearful of summary punishment, and I delivered to them a final message In an I even,‘emotionless voice. He told them I that he never repudiated a gambling I debt or claimed back his losses whbn ■ he had been beaten by a fair run of 1 the cards or the skill of the player, bul I that he and his friends were not go- I ing tq submit quietly to robbery, and 1 crude robbery at that; that they had I taken only what was due to them and J not a dollar more. His peroration di- I reeled the gamblers to make them- I selves scarce in that community and I never again to show their faces bAS White river under penalty of intimac®| with a hempen rope. Until morning he® gave them to take away themselves® and their boat. Leaving piles of gold and bills. surplus from the safe after deducting® the losses of himself and friends, scat-® tered in confusion over the table, thell planter and his companions stalked toll stately dignity from the boat. n It was less than an hour before toe 'I houseboat cast off its moorings and 1 floated away with the current, negroes fl aiding with toe sweeps. That was thell last ever seen or heard of the brothers? ■ or their gambling houseboat on any of 1 the rivers of Arkansas.—Kansas City | Star. I Before the Daye of Envelopes. , I Ancient specimens of letters arefij shown In the Hos museum nt VlennaJ® One Is dated 1396. It consists of . large sheet of ribbed white paper fold-Jg ed In three. A band of paper was j passed round the outside and through ■ a silt in one edge, being then fas-■ tened with soft wax. A small piece® of thin paper Was laid on the waxli and the seal pressed on the paper, noi U directly on the vjax. A somewhat /j similar arrangement is found in a lam® ter of the year 1446, which was wrft-B ten by the town counselor of Munich® to the burgomaster of Rastenburg, ita® the Tyrol, tn order to obtain infornja || j tion concerning a man accused of brgt’H amy. In tb, e sixteenth century people!® In the Tyrol and Bavaria use.d 'bandsl l of vellum or cords, fastened with wax. 1 1 Later came separate round and oblong II wafers. The use of tlie encircling.' l band continued in Austria generally toi. I 1750, or thereabout, and probabljf® reached the last century among’ conA® servattve people. The fir;t of the modern type in this belongs to the year 1715. || — ~ ’ll t Disinterested Affection. II He—Darling, you must want me toll give you something or you wouldn’t bwl so sweet and gentle today, .She— Orf® the contrary,,l don’t want anything a A® aIL It’s only for the dreaamaker ® Frou Frou. \ ■ z n