Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1894 — Page 11

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21, 1894.

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HE AND SHE.

II lived at 12 "Woodman-st., Chelsea. She lived at 13. For ten ye,rs they had been opposite, neighbors, each occupying the drawing-room apartments. She hni taken up her abode there six weeks after He was installed, and in a dull uninterested way he had watched the unloading of the cab, the taking in of the luggage, the bustling to and fro of tha small, slim woman, whose face he got a very imperfect glance at. She looked about thirty, not that He cared whether she was twenty or seventy. His heart Just then was heavy and sore; he had lt the one relation h had left, the only being in the world he cared for his old mother' and In p'.ace of home and her he was simply now "the drawing-room lodger." For some lime after her arrival, She rather annoyed him by standing at her window, looking straight in front f her, which meant looking Into his room, and he got into the habit of calling her Miss Pry, and It quite amused him to devise plana for baffling her curiosity. When, as he supposed she found it impossible to satisfy herself and turned away, he would eoek a position where he could get siht of her, and It was thus he discovered that 'that something she bent over and hugged 1 to her was a black kitten, and his eyes Involuntarily glanced to an empty cage In which, a few week3 before, his mother's old canary had moped and died, and somehow he could not see tho opposite house so clearly. He left his lodgings to go to tlw city, wjiere the Jnsurxnce office w In which he waa a cleric, every morning at twenty minutes to nine: this gave him tims to walk to Charing Cros3, w here he took an omnibus f:r the rest of the way, and She, after some month noting thU fact, b?grm to say to her cat. "It's time you hid your milk, Totty, and I got ready. There ges Mr. Punctual over the way." She never saw him return, bwause the hour.i at her situation were linger than his. She was typist t a wh:l?.?jle Ann In Bedford-st.. and it was generally 5, ' often C, o'clock before she had finished her pile of letters. Hut -slie was in no hurry to get back he did not say, "to get horn?," for the sound of that word fttlll choked her arid when he had notlred tier lxxking thr.URn the window panes, playing, as he thought. the . on him, her blurred eyt-3 siw nothing but a picture, from mernr of a cy r.rn in a country rectory, with father and mother and Tom and Anne, all now d-id and gjn, and she left alone to struggl as best .he could to g-t her own living. Ar.d so years w ent on, with all tii? j -, and sorrow;, and chmg-s they bring; but chance, opportunity, and f rtun ;, wh -tht-r good or bad. seemed to have f rg tt?n and piiMed over the two oei-upant. of 12 t;id 13 Woodmin-st.; the dull r 'iitine of th-lr daily lives went n ex icily the sjrne. Stay, though; there was or.e small difference. Although they liad never exi-h:tnired a word, or given a look without the width of the road being between them, they took a kindlier interest, and in a way occupied themselves with one another in a far more friendly manenr than either had the slightest suspicion of. They still kept for ervh other the nan.s of Mr. Punctual and Miss Pry, and gradually He kept count of the hour at which She returned, by watching for her gas to be lighted. "They take advantage of her UMng a woman, and kep her to late," he would say; and this leading him to wonder what her occupation could be, he one day ventund to put the o.u -stioii to hi landlady, Mis Ha'tes, when she brought up his tea, Notwithstanding Miss I'.atos's firmly grounded prejudice against female lodgn.s. who didn't have their proper dinners out, anil so wanted nil ?orts of fiddb--f.id.lics cooked with their tta. she showed her sense of justice by opinir.rr that the young person was respectably conducted, inasmuch as she "neve- siw nothing blameworthy in her;" but so far as she could make out. h-r occupation wasn't millinery, or music lessons, or anything of that sort genteel which wouldn't trouble the Jenkens'?, for anybody particular would be very out of phce in that house. She, too, had ma.Ie her effort at fliacovery, and h id raid casually to the domestic drudge. "Do you know the name ? the gentleman in the drawing-room epio-ke, Iäzzie?" "What! he as lives with th" oil cat Bates? No, nor I don't war.C to neither. He ain't no gentleman he never give the postman a bra.ss fathin' at Christmas." The postman was reckoned by Lizzie among her followers, ore whom any stroke of fortune might turn into "my young man who has offered to treat me to the pantomime." "Perhaps; h cannot afford to give." Lizzie give a eontf jiipunus tvc.s of her head. "Can't afford!" she sail. "Why. you give him six pence and has to work hard and stint, and he has in wine and spirits and beer; I watched 'em dtliverin It there. I see him come home this afternoon with) a bird; that shows him for a reg"ar old bachelor." A bird! She made no more inquiries from Lizzie, but several times she f. -und Jiet-seif wondering whether it was a linn-t or a canary. Anne had been so fond of birds and so clever with them, she hoped he would manage it properly. A? soon as th? weather grew warm 8he saw that tho bird was a canary. He meant her to notice it. for he displayed It rather ostentatiously in front of the open window, looking out of thei corner of hia eye to see if sho was taking notice, and saying to himself the white, "Come, come. Miss Pry, I have a pet now as well as you." Perhaps six or seven years went 5y, in exactly this same fashion, when a most exciting event took place. A school chum and friend of former days happened to hear something about the old rectory, and remembering how mach kindness pae had been shown there, sent an invitation to the poor London worker to come down to We?.therdale and spend Christmas there, and it was 'by reason of this that He, startled by th unusual sound of a cab "being whistled for, got up from hi3 'breakfast to see that it was- driven up to No. 13. Why, no yes. actually it was for Mis: Pry; the servant girl was hoisting up her box to the cabman, and there at the d jot She was standing with a basket evidently the cat In it on her arm. Where could the Je going? He forget that she rou'A see him, and when she looked up he could almost fancy she smiled, her face wore such a beaming expression. At that moment there was a great Hurry and bustle to get in, the. taioman (bent down to g?t his directions, and away he drove, with such a shtiw of haste that the watcher from the window, returning to his breakfast, found himself siying, "Put everything off to the vory las: minute; that's Just like a woman." Ad He waited foe hL omnibus at Charing Cross he looked a: the station and wondered was It there that Miss Iry had bein going, and then he forgo: all about her until at the usual hour, drawing aid' the blind to look out, he siw the dark window, arM he felt as If a friend had gon from him. The following Sunday was a very dull day". Usually He looked out at the hour when he knew She would 1? going t . church, often aying. "You're very foolLsh j to go without an umbrella; it's almos; , certain to rain before you g?t home;" and wnen nis roreroiings proved true, ne would feel quite fidgety, and say, "She'll get we: and spoil all her bt things." Perhaps it was that going away at ' Christmas that made him 'think of a holiday; at aM events, in the summer a h!Iday he took, and then it was her turn to say to her oat. "Oh. Tatty. I hope Mr. Punctual will soon comet back, for without him I never knrw th? time." And mi.sing the canary, she hoped the lart Hdy W2s looking after It; and then 5 wondered where He had gone perhaxs to the country. p-Thaps to the seaside; and memory taking her bark to loved spots of days long ag-, she forced back some tears as she atd, "Ah, Totty, life Ls very hard, my eat." And thu3 ten years stole by. each reflecting the other so exactly that, except

ing the Christmas visit and the summer holiday, there were no landmarks to point the course of time to Nos. 12 and 13. and then fate, fortune, or whatever name we givo tt the good providence who dUr-s those trivial circumstances that lead to great events in our lives, arranged that on a certain afternoon in May there were

so few letters to write that the typist i clerk could leave her I?edford-st. ofllce at ! a much earlier hour. und. full of anticipation that she would be able to put the finishing touches to a gown ehe was renovating, she tripped Into the Strand, hailed the first omnibus she saw. clambered to the . top, and took the only vacant seat. In her anxiety to secure this, she did not notice more than that it was a man next to her; but that man being He, and he, having watched her from the time she hailed the 'bus, was now quite in a flutter, for she was only Just settled when they were at Charing Cross, where he always got down, which he could 'hardly do now, a?, without an explanation, which he could not give, it would seem so very peculiar ; somewhat offensive, indeed. l?y the time his hesitation was over they were on their way again, and the conductor was collecting the money. She paid her fare. He silently held out the extra twopence, which th5 man taking with a nod of surprl?e. she turned her head, and instantly there i mounted to her cheeks a rosy color. He, being of the old school, looked on a blush as one of the most becoming features of a woman. It was the signal of the weakness of her 6ex, to be answered on the part of the man by a desire to protect, and without hesitation he said, "I think you and I are going the same way?" "Yea." and her olor deepened, "we live opposite each other in the same street." "Quite two ef th? oldest inhabitants, I should say." "I: is ten years since I came," and she gavti a sigh. "Y?3, but I was there before you. I remember your coming." "Do you? Oh. I am accustomed to It nw. but, at llrst. to hxve nothing but houses b fore me seemed dreadful. I used t stand at the window and -well, I won't say whU, only that I did not s?e the opp?it? houses very clearly." "l'erhap I can enter Into your feelings better than you think," h said kindly, "for t'i me, then, my surroundings were hateful." "I had always lived in the ountry, and I supixne I thjugh things would go on the sim? forever, but in four years I lost every on belonging to m?; h me and means were swcit away, and I had to b-gin II f? alone." "Terrlbl hird on a woman," he sa'd symp itlu'tic-ally. "Well, and yet I think sometimes it Is harder on a man. Of courst, I d m't mean on who finds pleasure In clubs and company. I know you are a stay-at-home, lvu: every evening I se? your lamp alight." "And your lamp keeps min? company." "Yes. I've n.-ver ben away but once to spnd Christmas with a school friend, wh has since g ne t India. That wh an excitement f r in?! I 1 ked up and Raw y u and very nearly nodded, and then I wis so frightened that I jumped into the cab and told the man to drive as fait as h could." "And I thought you were late, and it quite fidgeted me. and I gave yon a mental svolding. Just .ike I often do on Sundays when you will go out without an umbrella." "Well, but last Sunday you went out without y.mrs. and mere than that, you left the window epon on your bird, anil I said to Totty my cat 'Now that i very th nightie-?, for if the run goes In Dicky will catch co'.d.' " "And I fear he did catch co!d. for he has isit with ail his feathers roughed up, looking vory reproachfully at me. Yoj know, lie is si; years r.d." "My eat is ten; I can never bear to think of her ag.-. f r when she dies, well peeple will think her mistress a very f e.;li-h w.ni.m." "Not the.-.' who live alone won't." Hi.-i tone i f sympathy brought a pleasant expression into her eyes. "You find your 'Oird cvunpany. don't yju?" he said. I ioking at him. "That summer when you went away I was quite anxious, fearing the Iand!ady might not look after him I ropjrly. You know we misled v m dreadfully, Tc.ttie and I." "I can quite believe it; I felt very dull when you were ;t)b-;ent." They both laughed heartily. "You gone." she said, "and I had nothing to g by, because you are my timepiece in the morning. iMr. Punctual I coil you to Tottie; we established that nam almost directly after we settled there." And he had calll her ML?s Pry! Ah well, h would give her that name no 1 ir.gi.-r. Should he ask what was her real nam? He thought he Suddenly the harst-H stopp-.-d. "Why. here we are?" he said, looking at her amazed. It was the corner leading to the street in which they lived. "The way has .seemed very short," she sai l, prepiring to get d nvn. "Usually I think our omnibuses go si slowly." "Do they? I always walk from Charing Cross. I was Just going to get dor.n today when you got up and sat down next me." "Yes. I felt my faoe get quite red when l yaw it wa.s yon. I wondered would vou speak, and 1 was sa glad when you did." "I ho;-, now, whenever we meet you will a!'.ov me to speak to you." "X shall be very glad," she said cordially; "it sjenis so much nieer to have exchanged a, few words with) ona another." "Well, we wvre not like strangers to each ether, were we?" "Certa'.nly not; I have fe.t as if you were almost a friend for nearly ten years." And they shook hands, and, both a little agitata! at thw unlooked-for adventure, turned toward their respective dwellings. v It has been said that every rose has a thorn, and the thorn that, was fs?'.t by the tKxupants of 12 and 13 Woodman-st., showed itself in the sudden shyness each, felt in appearing at nheir windows. He said: "I don't wish, her to think that I am presuming in any way." Sh said; "I must be careful now. and not le: him fancy I want to court notice." And so it happened that a week passed without either getting a legitimate glimpse of the other. They both began to grow quite moped, ami a little disposed to feel the lt;ast bit disappointed In each other. Sho need na: suppose I have the smallest intention of taking advantage of a little exchange of conversion together," he said hufflly. While she recalled every w ml she had spoken to him. to make sure that she had not allowed her tongue to run away with her. On the very evening of the day week on which they had met, drawing aside his blind to look at the opposite window why, there was no light there. How very odd! She must be out. and out she seemed to remain all the evening. A very unusual thing for her. Put still more unusual was, that the next morning her blind was not drawn up. She must be away! He really felt injured. Hla feelings were as ruffled a.s the feathers of his bird. Not that it mattered to him in any way. Only when a person made a fuss and pretended to be glad that they had spoken to one another, you hardly expected that they'd take care never to be seen again. He tried to put the thought away, but it would not go. No sooner was ho at home than it buzzed in his head like a bee, and thinking he might get from MlsS Pates whether she had noticed any departure, he said. a she was setting the teapot down. "Lovely weather for the time of year." M3 Pates was in a lugubrious frame of mind. "Plenty of sickness about, I hear. They say." she added, with a sniff and a .sigh, "the children's dying llk uh??p with meaMoj, and In some parts whole houses is down with influonza. I'm faire I trust we shall be spared, but I doubt it, for there's one of 'em ill opPste I siw th3 dactor t'diy go!ng in there." Th? sudden change In hl face asäured her that she hid thoroughly drenched his vivacity, and following the axiom thst hiving made an impre?sion you should go, Mis3 Ilites Wt the room. He buttered his toaat and poured out his tea, and soma mlnut?3 later, finding plite and cup

empty, hs reasonably surmised that hs had oa'ten and drunk, but he had d..ne so mechanically, whll? his thoughts were oxrupled by the words of his landlady. Poor llttl? woman! Now he knew why th" windw was dark and the blind remained down. She was 111. Siekness. that despiir of the) breadwinner, had lain its droad hand on her. l'oor thing, poor thing! Men such as he are seldom spintaneously sentimental or sympathetic, ami he b -lir.td that h? was na exception to the rule. Years of loneliness cramp and narrow our emotion and turn them toward self, and it was the knowl-dge. of this that mid? him surprised at the quick interest he took in this worn in whom, although ha had for years seen, he had never but once spoken to. He took up a book, but he couldn't read. He walked about the room, he looked out of the window; In short, for over an hour he lidgetod over a .eore of things, and then, that lnwaikl tormentor refusing him any peace, he suddenly put on his hat. crossed the road, änd knocked at the door, determined to ask what was th? matter with the lady on the drawing-room tloor. He had arranged his words and, the door opn, was abiut to utter them, when, why no yes it wis she, she herself, who had answered the door and was standing before him. "I am so glad," he said taking her hand and giving tt a hasty shake. "I thought you were ill." "And you came over to see? Oh, how good and kind! Thi'c anybody should care cheers me more than I can siy." "There was no light in your window last night, and this morning the blind was iown, and while I was wondering what had become of you, my landlady told me he had ieen the doctor here." "Yos, but happily not for me. But you must come in and hear the story. It's poor Kezlah, the servant here. She tripped on the stairs and fell down, and has broken some tendon in her leg. And Mr. Jenkins is away and the other lodgers were out, so that when I got home 'I found her lying, groaning helpless, on the mat." "But why did you no: come over for me?" "I wish I had now. I did not think of doing so, but fortunately I was able to help ht r. I managed to get her to bed. but I had to d; up all night with her, and this morning I got the milk-boy to go for the d.x'tor. ami take a telegram telling them I could not gvto itelford-st. It was impossible 'to leave her alone; but now her sis-ter has come, and Mrs. Jenkins will soon be here, so I ana free again. Won't you come up-stairs to my room?" She did not wait for a reply, but led the way, saying, as s-he ushered him in: "What a pity it Ls not light; then you could see my view of your window." "Oh, but what a cosy room!" He had halted Just inside the door and was looking around. "Does it look so? I tried as much as I could to make it look like my old hörn.

A few friends brought in some of the furniture for me, and when I was really settled it was sent up. Lodging-house roonn are so dreary." His answer was a half-stilled sl?h. In thtt moment he had compared the bla. k h.rrsehalr-eover d chairs and .-ofi. of Miss Bates's drawing-room the rigid back ( f each one protected by u wool antimacassar with th homely sm'g-.cv which reigned here. "As you s-e," she said, pointing to the table "I was Just making myself a cup of tea. Now won't you sit down and J !n me? That would be showing y .njivlf neigiilwrly." "I think I h.evc had n;v tea." "Think only?" "Wril. I know my landlady broueht it to me, beciusv it was then sh" spoke of having seen the doctor lu re; and I at once jumped at the conclasioi that you were ill. because for a week pa ;: 1 hive never caught sight of you at the window." "And I have never seen y:i." "No; we don't see unless we loo!;." "But I have lookeil. " "Not from where you usually stand, or I must have svn you. I begin to feci a little huffy. I thought. 'She never fan -i.-s I me.m to priurue on that little chat we had together?' " "Why. of eoiire not. How n.uld 1? I was only afraid I iiiiieht have P-t my tongue run too quickly." "Come, come!" he said, smiling. "It has taken us ten years to break the ice. It mr.st not take us ten more before we thaw." While be pj ike his eye were following her watching her measure out the tea, pour the water from th- kctMc. He did not offer to help her; th Fight of a worn in doing tae-e trilling acts brought to bl:n r. pleistyable sense of home. "You are looking very tiled." he said, as Fhe sat down waiting for the lea to draw. "That is partly because I was tip all night, and then during the day I have felt rather anxious about being awav from the ofH( e." "Oh, don't worry about that. They'll get on all right without you." "Yes, I know they will; but I don't want them to find that out. There are so many women wanting employment, and some know French and (lerman. which I don't, and others have a home with their parent? and could take a smaller salary. Oh, it does not do to stop away! When I found that poor thing lying helpless on that mat I thought supposing this wa:i my case, what would become of me? It isn't death I fear sooner or later that comes to all but old ape. sickness, sends a shiver through me." "Then have you nothing put by?" "A few pounds only. How could I? I get 30 shillings a week. That Is not quite 80 a year." "And you manag? to live here on that?" "I pay my way. Why? Does that sound" to ycu very little?" "Very little." "I suppose they do pay men better, and it's well they do, for you want more than we do. and you are not able to manage as well." "I ana in a fire-insurance society," he said. "The salaries there vary from one hundred to three. When I had 100 it did not matter to me. My mother was living then, and in addition to a pension, she had a little put away, which at her death came to me." "I am glad you need not bj troubled with my anxiety." "No. and yet I have as great dread of sickness and of old age. Each year I live the sense of my lonline&s more oppresses me." "I know. "Why, I can't tell you the pleacurei it gives nie to have somebody drinking tea with me. to be able to speak of things we fell things that give one sorrow or Joy. The men at the otHce are all good fellows and very kind to me. but I should never dreato of talking to them as I have to you. They would not understand. I might as we'd speak in Chinese!" He did not answer in wortls, but he give her a nod of sympathy, and stooped down to stroke the cat. "Now, Totty. get up and be friend'y to Mr. ." She stopped. "That reminds me." he said, "we have no: lexchangi'd namea yet. My name is Robert Motley." "And mine is Elizabeth Davidson." "Elizabeth!" ha repeated softly. "My mother wa called Elizabeth." "And my father Itobert. Robert Is a very dear name to me. He hid such a generous, sweet nature. "When I think of his trust I feel ashamed of my despondency. Not that I am despondent long. My disposition Is buoyant. I am very lik a cork If I go und?r water one minute, the next, up I bob again." "You always struck me as being very cheerful." "What! Did I seem cheerful from over the way? Dear mi! How little I dreamed that any one was taking the tiniest bit of Interest in m. I am so glad I know now si glad that we have spken to ach other, and that we are so friendly!" He had risen from his chair and seem el ruddenly about to go. She, a little embarrassed that he had not responded, added: "At least that Is my feeling toward you." "Is it?" he said stiffly. "I forgot it was so late; I really must go. Good-by." And before she had recovered from her surprise he was gone. A wave of hot color went over her. "What did it -mean? What did he think? Surely at her age no one could misunderstand her? The tears sprang to her ryes and fell in a quick shower. The door being opened made her look up. It was He back again. "When I got into the street I found I had left my hat behind." he was saying; and She, making an effort at regain

ing her self-possession, answered: "Oh. what a pity! Did you? Where?" This brought him into the room, and nearer to her. "Why, you are crying!" be exclaimed. "I! No, no," and ha forced herself to smile. "But you are. Your face is wet; your eyes are full of tears. What is the matter? Have I offended you?" "No, but I thought that perhaps I had offended you you veemed to go so suddenly; but please take no notice. Women's tears come very readily. It must be teeling i-o tlrd that make? roe !illy." He stood for a moment irresolute, turned toward the dvr, came back, and standing in front of her said. "Silly! If you think yourself -Filly, what will you say of me? You were surprised to see me go. It was because I feared you would think I had taken leave of my senses If I stayed." "Why?" "Why? Because all at one? the truth flushed uron me. Suddenly, I knew why I had felt . angry because I had not seen you at your window; why I was so anxious when I 'thought you wtre 111: what made me come over to find out the truth about you; the reason that seeing you here made me rejoice and feel happy. It is that I love you. Oh. it has not como now; for years It has been growing upon me, only I did not know. How should I? No other woman but you has ever had the s'llghtest interest in me. Pot ten years I had blamed you, pitied you, scolded you, worried myself about you. What more could I do? And now H has como to this, Will you marry me? I must know." "But I fel fure you are making a mistake. I have been talking to you, and you feci -rry for me. No, no; forget what you have said. In the morning everything will look different to you. Pity is r.ot love." "But it Is akin to it. If I give you love can you not give me pity?" "I pity you! Why, you have brought all the sunlight I have known for years ti me. When you spoke to me on the top of that omnibus 1 could have hugged you." "Hug m? now," he said for the temerjty of quiet men is remarkable and he took her hands and pi i ceil them on his shoulders, and looking at hT, continued, "We are tw very lonely bMngs; a kindly providence, as it sterns to me. has Immght in together. Can you trut yourself to m?? I would Ft rive to make you happy." She tried to speak, tried to force back her tear, but the happy flow would com. "It is because 1 am fo luppy," :-he said; "for I mns-t tell you that often and often, years ag . when I feU so solitary, I hive drawn aside my blind and looked over at your window, nnd. picturing yoa sitting there j-'.one, I have said. Why coeMn'; it ! that we to)k a fancy to eich other? h lo ik. s n!e ruid kind, bu: If he ma-.-ied it would be to a young girl, net to me." "Hut you ar young," "I I am thirty-eight." "And I am forty-live. We have no time to spare, 'iu see. Already we have waet.ed ten years. I shall put up the banns bnr.ietii.Ueiy. Yt u mut give nit ice that you jr- giing to leave at your ollic, and 1 will tell them at min- that I wan; mv h lid.iy." "It ni;:t be a iln am." nnd fhe put up h -r hands a.id pushed b:i-k her hair, "it cannot b- reality. Of late I have felt quite frightened thinking how sj'd it woulj 1 e if you went awav." "A :d-ni!ar drc d haunted me, e.-ici.il'y

today, when I saw the M nd down. Tut I now we shall h-nve together and we w.ll r down to Putney. The old house I lived in from a boy .-: th (. and ft I vacant. t . and we i,l make it our home, ant, ns lefo;-e. the deir Hirn of Its mist res will be Elij-nbeth Mo.-ley." B oui a Barr in I or.g!n:trs's. iioiivs im: Ai:ri'AVi. Tln-y Yi!l S.i !; IT 'lliri-t Ire Inv T!ire. Tli Ki-eiu li are et tiny r-jjc to look for tlif mm In the piotn. iVphe. js it wouM l) more aoeuratf to v:iv the., is ! piMp t t!ü 1 oi!t if thwe m- i.v.y r.xi'ii :m 1 wain -en r.i otli-r aiii-rp-itt-'l ore-ittires living on th- mrfacr of Moth-r ll;;r'h's s.ittilite. TliH .tit"rm-nt H bist-,1 in th- tilri recently revived conerrt.lns in- Mn' -W-Klass jwhlch it I hope.1 to hni vonijM-tel In, time to be one i f the I-.itarrH of th ; V ri uorl-.i's fair of W". If a 1 that Is h.j!l fer hi ace ,n,,ii'vie 1 lv thi tH Sf-p- it will l,e i i-.--i;.!e f,.j- the human ye. with Its t .. liseern ci.Jeo: as small :.s live V ,-t In liaiieir. If th:it ear 1 U-rn-? of i nT.-'e any men or animals simile. r in size to these on the irth will be virlhe. Sinale in livi lual.. it i.-t 1ru will ni Lkl'it the tidiest of specks, hut no censM-r-al!e mimher o men or iea.is couM conjrreji.atu wKh.'.ut lulnc .?en. It would le O'lite cisy tvon to make out a email wevlillns iir.y of a lizen. An army of lin,so men on the march would 1 ;ik like great dark mass of int':iilt;.imai tineo!, fI vwly moving across Ih !iin;ir Bi:rf in', no! it Is null rert;ii!i that witl such c t leseooe a'; H proposed f-weepitu; the ni VvHisi'itpe, n war could ie in progress there without Its evolutions 4elnit seen. Whitever may he th performances of the propose 1 telescope after It Is finished, its conception Is so da.rinr and Ks Fizwill lie . jtrcat a- to compel respectful interest. The necessary fo-al length of the Instrument has 1-een computed to be Wl feet. The Us mirror If to be nine feet ten inches in diameter, ten Inches more than three times of the Lick object glass. These Iljaruivs prow on y:u as you think of them. The tub? of the proposed telescopewill not be much less than I'd feet lor.r. S Mi tiding -n a sidewalk It wouM nearly block up the way, and would reach as hhrh aa one of tho latest twelve and thiruxn-story buildings. The mirror would be a fit looking plass for the use of a genuine Klintens, n is to bi nineteen and a half Inches thick, and its weight it estimated at nine and one-haf tons. .slooe! Womrn Deserve Rieet. It is her own fault If a woman is unloved and neglected. This Is a harsh statement to mr.ke, but It is a fact. Mortal man is a weakling who can no moro resis-t kindnes.i than a rose can resist the sun. It M weak, helpless wor.ian'n duty to make her self attractive and pretty in the very teeth of defeat and to make herself agreeable to every one in the very face of discouragement. Call it hypocrisy, tact, finesse or bv any ether term, but she must turn in the eiXret and make allies Instead of anUurcnlfts of the people about her. Spotles l neatness, becoming feminine attire, truth, kindness, cheerfulness, love rr.d the loyalty that restrains her from &;eakin? ill of her neighbors will make any woman f v ly, even though Fhe lacks beauty. 1'hiladelphia Times. Ilni- t Drive. Utile Hoy "Uncle George, may I drive your horse?" I'ncle G-jorse "You never learnel to drive." 'It's easy. Vou just pull his head -which ever way you want him to go, that's all." "Hut suppose he gets stubborn or scared, and 'logins to back?"' "I'm why. I'd back him around till he was backing In the direction I -wanted to ro. and then let him jto on backing." Street & Smith's Good News. IIuw to lie VlRorou If Old. A happy and vigorous old latly. when askod the secret of her elKhty-threo years of health and enjoyment, swld: "I never allow myself to fret over things I cannot help. I take a nap anil sometimes two ot thern every day. I do not carry rny washing. Ironing, dressmaking or baking to bed with me. AnO I try To oil all the friction out of my busy life by an Implicit belief fhAt there are a -brain and a heart to this great universe, Bnd that I can trust them both." To Clrnn tnrn. The Russians clean their furs after this fashion: Rye flour Is placed In a p-t and heated upon the stove, with constant ptlrrine, as long .3 the h.nd can bear the heat. The flour Is Men ppread over the fur and rubbed Into It with a vigorous hand. After this treatment the fur Is brushe, or, better. Is gently beaten until r11 the flour Is removed. Furs treated in this manner are said to resume their natural color and luster and look like new. Not I. Ike Ulm. Spencer "Somebody told me that Russell Sage spent hail an hour looking for a cent he dropped the other day." Fergusn "I don't believe that story." Ppencer "Why not?" Ferguson "I don't believe he ever dropped a cent."-N. Y. World. llovr IJoth the llimr A Spanish ranchman cut down a bee tree near Sparta, Cal., recently and took out 743 pounds of honev. The accumulation had evidently been the worK of years.

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SMU.I. MK AMI I.VKWi; WOMllX. With HrmtirlN on tin- Trtiltn of I,lt(lWoiuon 2iiil Itlsc Mn. If wife No. 1 is slurt d p-eil upon It that wife No. 2 is short, loo. It has always leen said that small men love big women, and vice Versa, and the old sn wnian in llckens's stary. V.iop-:. tho l.warf," give it as Iiis experience that dwarfs always fe'.l in love with th glantisses i:i a museum, and that this wa.s go d for the ti l ie. s'm-e it prtventel U:e propagation of too many dwarfs, and thws kept them th- curio-itir that they were. Nev rtht'less, there have been a ;;o 1 m my marr!e..re betweu dwarfs. Gen. and Mrs. Tom Thumb were both dwarfs. Gen. Ti.m man led Kui i.i rat I. an 1 ti-irhr of thm was a yjrd hlch. Sim'lar Instancrs cull ru Le iiiuk'.plied. but tii-.-e marriages, like a got, 1 n:i:iy other tnarrlayes among l.irgei- people. ;n fiir sh.iv.' put poses, and the dwe.rf husband is quit certain to le flirting with women wha are aliiu-it big enough to swallow the little vdi r- r as tlni.:;h he were a capful. Giants ar, ik'.. likely to nrirry small women, but they do not run to the tame extremes as the dwarfs do In their live :;ffa.!rs. It is not recorded that the cHel.rated Nova Scotia giantess had any liutKtnd, n.r are nui-e:i:n fat woiiu-n hap;y in having nuny adorers, except, pt-rhaps. ann.ng prof c'ssii. na 1 livlnic skeletons, wlren . tlih.'dierous side of the case makes It irnp; it.e that the pa-sion shou.cl be mutual. Now. this icenertl nil" a'out ta!l women and short wi-inea cm be sall t apply In a midifled degre? with respect ta the flings that women entertain toward mill, but with a difference; for the women must wait for what men may come to them. wh-reas thu men c".n go out In search of the women, and consequently they have a wider Held of choice. Of course, this is all wrong and the tendency of our prtsent civilization may eventually wipe It out, and we s-hall have women proposing to men and regularly laying siege to their hearts whenever it suits them to do so. As soon a-s this state of affairs arises ft will bj t-asy to see that v.vmen prefer big men to lltiie men. or vice versa. It is probable that the big men will have the largest number of suitors, for womm as a general thing, if they like a man, like a great dal of him. When you like, for instance, little women there Is no use In your endeavoring to place your position on any basis of reason. If you say you like them because they are cleverer or more beautiful than big women you are not talking sense. Size has nothing to do with brains, and at for beauty, if you judge It by the greatest productions of art. you will find the preponderance Is rather In favor of the larger women. The Venus of .Mi!) is a big woman; so the seven virgins surrounding the car in the painting of the Aurora; most Madonnas are of medium size, not small. As fcr brains, they have nj reference to size. George KUot was big. and sr was Queen Kiizabeth. -but Charlotte Uronte was almost a dwarf. Harriet Martinen was small, ami so was Polly Madison. As for heroic dees. they anpear to have been performed by women of medium size. Grace Darling is represented a't being of medium proportions, with a tendency rather to be large. Florence Nightingale was of ordinary size, with a tendency to be small. So with Mme, Roland and others that could lie named. Women who have been famous lieoause men loved them frantically and braved it great deal for them have usually l-en large. Cleopatra was above the medium hight; so was Iady Hamilton, whom lwird Nelsjn loved so guiltily; so was the wicked Aspasia; so was Mary Shelley. For terms of tnearment. however, a woman Is little. The sense of protective devotion of men Siems to require this. Who ever beard of a man addressing his wife, "My dear, big wife" Of course, size has little to do with disposition. There Is a prevailing tendem y. however, among large people to be rather slow of mind, r.nil consequently rather plow to anger. Taken as two separate classes, big women are rather better tempered than 11 1 1 1- women, but there are some terrible viragoes among the big wornmen. Fat women are, of course, marly always good natural. It Is the long, lean women who are the worst. Female murderers belong to this cla-s, and it must be added, in all fairness, some of the most charming women in the world are Inclined to be long and lean. Rut Mrs. Sherman, the Connecticut woman who killed a dozen feople, was a lean and hungry tigress, and f you will go to the penitentiary you will lind that this Is the prevailing type among criminal women. If you want a vicious, stinging creature, that has a tongue blie a nee.iie, you im.st get a little woman the smaller the better. These are the most terrible ones of nil. They are very apt to bs good-looking, too, of the brunette type, with dark, bright flashing eyes. When the eyes get angry run away, if you know what Is good for vourself. There is no use in staying out In the rain If you can run Indoors, and there Is no sense In a man standing under a torrent of stinging words from a woman if he can run away from her. She may pursue you and probably will d3 so and f.he may catch you later, but at any rate you will have a respite. Washington Star. A Imw Itrenlrl. W heelman "Bicycles are not allowed on th side-walks here, are they?" Villager "No law asln It. RUe on the Blflfwalk all you want to." "I heard some time ag that you had a law aprainst it." "Yes, wo had. hut after half a dozen folks Jumped into the street to evap? baby carriages, only to pet knocked down by bicycles, we concluded to repol the law and let the bicvc and babv carriages llRht It out." Street &. Smith's Good News. KUnl Teriu. Miss Manyseason "Ves, I have consnteil to marry Mr. tloldbugg-. I da not love him, but I reppct him." Miss Budd "Oh. I woulln't worry abotit that. Most likely his leelins for you li chielly veneration." N V. Weekly.

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