Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 41, Hope, Bartholomew County, 1 February 1894 — Page 8

Nrlluol Nol.'x The high school literary society met Iasi Friday and the interest of the members is* shown by the fact that only two were unprepared. Although the question for debate was an old one, it was taken up with interest by the pupils and theqnestion was forever settled that woman’s suffrage would not be for the* best interests of the nation. The next i.i eting of the society will be or. Frii ay, Feb. 9th. The committee is lining its best to make the next program the most interesting yet. All visitors and especially patrons of the school will be cordially welcomed. Tlie following handed to us by 1 'rof. Hacker will show the status of the schools tor the last two months: Whole number enrolled, —*>S. Average attendance first month, 1st room, 27; 2nd, 27; 3rd, 30; 4th, 22; 5th, 32; fill), 29. Entire school, 107, Average attendance second month, ' 1 t, room, 42; 2nd, 33; 3rd, 34; 4th. 42; 5lh, 30; Olh, 30. Entire school, 217. Per cent of attendance, 84. Number of tardies, 112. Pupils neither absent or tardy for two months: Clancy Cook, Forest Hancock. Claudie Ogden, Daisy Ogden. Frank Ogden, Nina Spaugb, Dillard Harker, Berth.jsHitchcock, Ora Ketucr, Lulu Gephart, Lela Davis, Horace Weinland, Katie Rapp, Claud Reehms, Pearl Ketner, Alpha Fetter. Martin Reed, Minnie Weinland, Esther Dillman, Walter Hynerson, Charlie Solomon, John Moore. Pupils having highest average scholarship in each year; first, Claud Cobee, Maggie Clark; second, Jamie Clark, 9(1; third, Fred Hutfmaster, f)a; Ollie Shepherd, 94; fourth, Nina F.paugh, 90; Ruby Stapp, 90; fifth, .Jicia Davis, 95; sixth, Morris Romiager, 91; Anna Simmons, 97; seventh, Willie White, 93; Daisy Brannen, 93; eighth, Kate Hopkins, 98; ninth, Kate Dodd, 100; tenth, Eustace Newton, 991. Our average at tendance has been v ery poor. We can readily account i-»r this during the first month covi -ed by this report, as so many were 1, apt away from school from fear of the diphtheria. During the second month the sickness of quite a number of pupils has kept them from School. But the attendance is yet much poorer than it should be. | Many pupils if kept in school from row regularly until the close will be able to pass a good examination and secure promotion, but, if parents allow them to be irregular in attendance, wilt no clou! t fail. Tbeearnest co-operation of all patrons of the .school is requested that our attendance may I e better. Judge fi£UI*on’» JLeclurts. . Last Thursday evening the Bap-1 list church was filled to its utmost j to hear Indiana's poet-judge deliver liis lecture on •'Uncrowned Kings and Queens,” under the auspices of the Red Men’s lodge of this place. Judge Ellison did himself proud in ids presentation of his subject. "Every man who has widened the horizon of human knowledge, who has broken one link in the chain of Slavery; who has helped to make the world brighter or better,’ —is a King. Every woman who ha) gleaned in the field of thought and action; who has pressed the velvet touch of her kiss to the pallid lips of suffering who has added to the sum of human enjoyment—is a Queen. The lecture abounded in wit and humor as well as solid thought for .sober moments. The Red Men are to be congratulated on securing for •our people a lecture of so high order. When Judge Ellison returns, as we understand he proposes to do, he will receive a warm welcome to Hope. John Pavy and wife, of Burneys, visited John Luther and wife Tuesday. By examining the tongue, physicians find out the diseases of the bodv: ) n 1 philosophers, the diseases m ,Uc au-d and heart. —Justin.

[COMEDV AM) TRAGEDY. By THERESA I. MACQU0ID. CHAPTER I. Miss Month Foster was sitting on the floor of her cabin, which was Uttered with boxes, baskets and gaping parcels. She had commenced with the laudable intention of putting things straight and unpacking what she required for the 17 days’ voyage from London to Constantinople, but had not got very far, for on opening her traveling bag a photograph at the top had diverted her thoughts and plunged her into a reverie. "You are a wretch!" she addressed it, "that’s what you are, and took the meanest advantage of an utterly inexperienced girl. However, I am not that any longer. I seem to have turned into a woman all at once, and 1 hale you—hate you and every other living man. You flirted with me just to pass tho time, and I—well, I was fool enough to lofo you and to break my heart. Cut there, i’’s all over, and nothing is too had for you. Oil, Mabel, how you did make me jump!” for the ftut.r had been silently pushed open, and another girl, older yet like her iu feature, stood iu the entrance. "What a d.eadful mess!" saidthenewcomer in a peculiar, soft, clear voice. "My cabin has been tidy ibis last half hour. Why, what’s the matter—crying? What!" she continued, glancing over her sister’s shoulder, “not over Colo- : ucl Gerard. 1 do hope?" "Ko, hoceiiainly is not worth crying about," pouted Norah, still gazing at I the object of her wrath. "I was merely adding a few additional tears to tho many I have already shed at my utter folly at being taken in by him for tho one hundredln part of a minute. But that he should have carried on with that sqniuty Lady Augusta is really more than 1 can understand. What could he see iu her —what could he, Mabel, I ask you;" "An aristocratic connection and great expectations, my dear, neither of which the daughters of Joseph Foster, Esq., possess. Lady Augusta may or may not have a squint, but she certainly has money and most obviously wants a husband. Then you see they me sort of cousins. 1 only do trust Colonel Gerard won't find oiu that you rushed away in a fit of jealousy. There, put some of these things away and forget him. There isn't a man a.ive worth half the thoughts women waste upon them.” "Oh. it's ail very well for you to talk like that, with your calm, placid nature that takes life exactly as it comes and sails along like a boat in a beautiful, smooth sea, always looking out for danger and so never getting into any trouble. Forget him! I mean to—1 mean I have. So tlr're goes his photograph." And tearing it across savagely she threw the pieces out of the porthole. "Oh, Mabel! Look!" she continued in a different voice. "There’s the other tender coming. Wo shall bo off directly now. Bother all these things! They will arrange themselves. Do come up on deck to see who our fellow travelers are." "In this rain? No, thank you*" answered her sister as she very d -liberatcly took up a hat on the floor aud smoothed its crushed trimmings. "Well, then, put this place straight: there’s a dear. Yon will do so in five minutes, while 1 should only muddle about for an hour, and then it would be no hotter. 1 don’t tho least mind the rain, so I’ll go up alone.” And catching np her hat and umbrella she ran out without giving her sister time to answer. Very pretty she looked in her m at serge dress and little hat as she stoo 1 by the gangway holding up her umbrella with both hands against the drivingmin. "Well, i don’t think much of them." she inwardly ejaculated as the passengers defiled before her. "Is that all? Ko. here’s ono more." For a young man muffled up in a long mackintosh coat, with a bright looking, clean shaved face, now walked briskly across the gan gway, carrying a small bag and rug iu one hand and a bundle of sticks in the other, then quickly disappeared below. Nora began to feel rather cold in the dripping raiu. with nothing to see hut the wet luggage being hauled up and the outlines of the Liverpool houses showing faintly against the fitful gri;y March sky, so she also turned her steps downward to tho saloon and sank onto one of the led velvet covered sofas. "Who can all those dreadful looking people be? That last young man was the only ono who had the slightest pretense to being a gentleman. I wonder who ho is. Why, there are his things. Perhaps they are labeled.” And without considering an instant—for nothing ever would persuade Miss Norah Foster to pause iu order to consider—she bounded across to the other side of tho saloon, where a small dispatch box. half covered by a rug, and a bundle of sticks had been placed on ono of the chairs. Cautiously looking around to see that no one Was in sight she lifted up a corner of the rug, svarted hack at what she i saw, then be,.t down again to make quite certain there was no mistake. But there ; could he no misconstruing the name, stamped in well worn but perfectly distinct letters on the box, "Lord Peter Donald, Foreign Office." The slicks, too. bore testimony to the box. There, were three or four, and on tho top of one of them was an unmistakable coronet. Norah fairly gasped for breath at her discovery as she let the rug fall again on

hearing a footstep outsme. ueuher llii! owner to the bos as he entered nor any one else could have divined anything from tiio girl's face. She was kneeling in her own seat again and gazing out of the porthole at the now fast receding shores of Liverpool. She looked furtively around, however, as the youn; man. having taken up his brushed past tier in going out again. "Now who on earth is Lord Peter DonaldS' she mused as the door of the saloon swung back into its place. "A lord isn't a duke by any means, but still if he were a nice one—of course, oi course,’ site emphasized, "1 shall novel love ary man as long as 1 live. That ■ rot to be oAj/ecleu. ret ITT, f suppose i shall have to marry somebody some day. only”—and here she paused, resting her chin on the silver ball of her umbrella—••only, as Mabel is so much prettier than I am and so demure and elevn r and what people cull taking. I think it would really he fairer if slie were handicapped a little sometimes. Bo in this particular instance 1 shall just keep the information that 1 have discovered to myself." Later on in the evening the ship commenced rolling rather ominously, and the wind rose, with every prosiiect of increasing. Tlie passengers, as they sat about in the saloon, consulted the glass and looked anxiously at each other, prophesying a storm, which, contrary to most amateur prophecies, actually came true, for ou waking the following morning Nurah found there was a regular gale blowing. She dressed and went in the highest possible spirits to her sist-. r. whom site found (pule prostrate and in a very dif-

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forent fraaio of mind, from Sc she obeyed the summons to breakfast clone ami staggered into tbo saloon with a feeling that she had been on board the. steamship Kill tie all her life. Here the bad night told its talo plainly, for the ranks had thinned to snob an extent that there were but two men seated wailing for breakfast, one of whom was the young man who had so aroused her curiosity the night before. Now Nor-ali was perfectly aware that she was goo 1 looking and felt rather surprised that ibis strange young man should he in such close proximity to her without making tiie very slightest advance toward acquaintanceship, bnt stolidly plodded through his breakfast in silence. "I wonder if it would be lowering myself to ask for the salt?” she thought. “Ho doesn't look married somehow," and site glanced again at the neatly dressed young man. who wore no ring or jewelry of any kind except the plainest and most solid looking watch chain. “Nothing venture—if he won't speak, well, 1 lamt The rain will stop: the wind will go down. Those dreadful looking people will appear, a id 1 shall lose ill)' chance forever." Sue silently rehearsed several forms over in her mind, finally deciding in favor of the rather ordinary, “Will you kindly pass mo the tali';” “Oh. he's shy, that's all.’* sho inwardly commented, as. blushing tip to the roots of his hair, he i nshed Uio saltcellar toward her without speaking. “Why. 1 have got some in front of me all the time," said Nora, and then she blushed too-, fearing test ho might have seen through me very transparent maneuver. "So you have," he said, speaking at last. Bnt the ieo being fairly orokon the conversation could now run with case into whatever course it was directed. But all the same she found him very hard to talk to—he appeared so unresponsive to her own open, frank nature—and when he had gone after lingering over the breakfast table for an hour Nurull came to the .melancholy conclusion that she had done most of the talking herself. “Perhaps he’s afraid of me. What a refreshing novelty that would be!” and she wandered around the saloon, taking down one book after another from the shelves in hopes of finding something exciting to pass away the time. Not a single fellow passenger had come into the saloon since the morning, and she had had her luncheon iu solitary state at one end of the long table. Nuruh loved being on the sea iivhvery sort'of Weather, bnt this storm had impressed her in an unusual maimer, making her feel Injw there was -indeed u serious side to nature. “How lightly she seemed to have taken her life so far in every way—even respecting Oolonc; Gerard' - — And here her hook tlippe-, unheeded onto the floor, and unbidden tears dimmed the bright brown .ryes as Imr mind went back to the visit five nioatus ago when she had first m.. hi.-*;

tu ,'T.ose I’T'es' across conn fry m (Tie cilkp morning air; to the walks they had taken together among the faded bracken and leaves that merciless autumn had doomed to death, till one day she had suddenly realized that she was a chjld no longer—but a woman, with a woman's heart. "Oh, it was cruel —it was shameful of him!” cried Nora.li, stamping her foot with anger. "My only mite of comfort is that 1 don't believe he knew I ever cared a rap for him, and I'll soon let him see that 1 can flirt with others besides himself." And getting up she thing open the piano which stood in a corner of the j saloon and began to play. At first care- ! Icssly. viciously almost, but gradually 1 her anger died away, and site forgot her woes, forgot the Sionn that was raging outside and the storm of thought that had been running riot in her own brain. ! as she threw her whole soul into the mu- | sic am! rocked and soothed her mind to . p ace once more. She was so utterly absorbed that she never heard the saloon dour open or the ({diet steps of the young man half cross the room —then stop. But his presence there seemed to change the current of her thoughts. The earnest, wistful look gradually left her face. She broke into a raise: then, suddenly ceasing, swung around and came face to face with him. I TO UK CONTINTEl) ]

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