Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 August 1896 — Page 3

UtTHE QM? CELLO'S THANKSGIVING

[On being recovered from a Qenovww garret. Thank heaves, the age of my shelving la past* This dust hidden page |r"

Of my history drear With a melodist's tear ».,* *"r* •& Is written at lout— That long, bitter solitude netherward cast*

oentnry flown I A hundred years king On my dim attic throne, Like a Thehan of old,

In my sepalcber cold 72'

I ruled, while the song. On my heart kept a vigil unfading sod strong. Cone, gone are the ladles in pearls and in laoes, "r*

Those lordlings from Cadis And Venice and Botse, All. all gathered home, While a thousand new faces Applaud my lovo sighings and sibylline graoeal

The lore I onoe bore in my tremoloos measure Is dead, and the roar Of tho battle is gone.

The curtain is drawn On the dolor and pleasure— All sealed in my bosom, mysterious treasure I

So I sigh, and I parr, and I moan as if now The glories that wore Slept not cn my heart.

But by anew art

They spring to the brow Of the master who rales roe, he half wonders how. —Vogue.

COUSIN LINN.

"Ycmng ladies, this is your ooosin Linn,'' said oar father, coming in dinner QUO day and presenting a tall young man.

Helen and I giggled. Oonsin Linn was tall,, as I said, and he did not know what to do with his tallness. Bis ton barrassment at sight of two grown and, I may say, handsome youcg ladies was plain. "What a gawk I" we thought*

Dinner diet not ranch improve oar opinion of fipjr relative, and it whs with dismay thac we heard, as we left the dining room "Girls, I leave yoar oonsin Linn yonr devices this afternoon. I have no doubt you oan entertain him." Then father strode put, of thedopr pnd back to business.

The wretch—I mean our new relative, of coarse. That very afternoon we were to have paid a number of neglected oalIs that could not longer be pat off.

Entertain him! Ob, yes, we would entertain him. And we did. "Just wait," said my Bister Helen be tween set teeth. "He shall show us how himself."

So when Oonsin Linn had finished his cigar—ho seemed to linger over it an unreasonably long time—and entered the parlor, his rather sheepish gaze met a batting of four light brown eyes, whcKO owners were prepared to make out whatever mischief he inr1.*^.

The first few moments passed tamely enough. Cousin Linn was a twig of brunch of the family tree that flourished in a neighboring state, too far away for us to know more than that we there boasted also an Aunt Lucy and a Cousin Kate. Wo put Cousin Linn down as an ordinary farmer boy, with a little mere thun his shure of the farm and of the boy about him.

Just as wo expected, Oonsin Linn himself g:wo its tho first hint of how he was host to be held up to the proper ridicule and sooru. In despair a£ our brief replies to his well meant oonversa tional efforts, his eye fell upon the piano, and ho, in gratitude of spirit, foil upon its neck. He asked us to play. Poor maul

Sister Helen began. Now, if there was one thing we girls prided ourselves upou, it was our musioal talent and education, or, rather, wo were proud of the talents and father of the education, which ho had paid for with mingled feelings of satisfied duty and outraged pocket. But that day Sister Helen appeared possessed. She played nothing but the simplest tunes, jigs and reels tuid even had the audacity to pick out several good old hymns with one hand. I followed her lead, and our poor old piauo was made to bring forth sounds ihjit no self respecting oow ^rould have died to. "Can't you play, Cousin Linn?" asked Sister Helen. Law, that girl's smile whs as innocent as a baby's, but it tut ant mischief for o*ircousin. That individual, who had applauded us loudly, looked at his shoes and said yes, be could piny a little. He would try, even after our brilliant performance^

Cousin Linn's musical education had evidently been on the lines laid down in our programme. Ho reeled off country dances with the ease of a oow walking a railroad trestle. If our selections were ruiu-te-tumty, Cousin Linn's were rum* te-tumtier. And to watch him picking out the tune, using one, two 01 three fingers of each hand, his long hair bobbingabout his ears as he docked his head at every note, aet us in a fit of sileu laughter. "Let's take him with us," whispered Helen as he neared the end of a "number. And of oourse I jumped at the idea of more fun with Oousin Linn. "I'm agreeable," said that young man when we asked him.

He spake bettor than he knew. So off wo set To every girl of oar acquaintance we paid a visit, and at every house we made new sport of Oousin Linn and his piano playing.

First, wo would play when asked, and always the same rum-te-tum tunes. Of course, tho girls took the cue from a wink and did the sarm\ while Ocrasin Linn sat there, his great eyes staring at his shoes, and saying never a word except "Yes'm" and "No*ttu"

Then* "Oournn Linn can play," one of us would demurely say, and Ocxwin Lino always

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So it went on. We left one hocKehokl after another In ooovulsioosof laughter, until we omm to Mia* Matilda Craig's. It happened that Miss Oraig played first and we were unable to give her the cu«v Poor, good Christian sooL She played tho piano as she did everything else, as her eaasefeooe bade her, just the beat idle knew bow. 80 after Miss Matilda had given us the "Turkish Retreat," the Wellington Boots QiikifcuKi^ and

other carefully rendered Helen and I oould do no less. We thundered at Bach and trilled at the best conservatory style We had been taught and snickered in our sleeves (they were wide then, too, my dears, but at the bottom and not the top) How Cousin Linn gaped. I actually thought the man's eyes would pop out of his head.

Then we made him play. He had to be almost dragged to the piano this time, but we were eager and curious to see him go through with his little jigs and reels again after our old masters.

So Oousin Linn took his seat at the instrument Somehow, as he sat there idly fingering the keys for a moment, the stoop went out of his back and the dull look faded from his eyes, and he seemed almost handsome.

Suddenly be threw his bead back like a warborse and struck a chord. I never heard a like sound oome from Miss Craig's old piano or any other. Grand and full and sweet, it sounded in the ears of our guilty consciences like the trump of doom. Again he struck the keys, and we felt that if it had not been for the expense and trouble to poor Miss Craig we would have liked then and thereto sink, through her best parlor carpet

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Then our oousin flung back his long hair and started off in earnest What it was he played I have never known, bat if it be possible to crowd more runs, oadenzas, shakes, arpeggios and other tests of technique into one piece of mu sic I have never heard that piece. The music seemed to 'flow from him like river, and it was a pleasure to watch the swift and easy movements of his fingers. With hardly a pause and never a look from the player at his two shamefaced auditors* the tones ofd tho- piano drifted from the grand to the Rght and airy, fTopj, the classic to tha. motkern. and finally into a soft and dreamy adagio that brought tears to the ey«« that had just now before beamed with the laugh ter of misohief.

And all the while poor little Miss Oraig looked on, with folded hands, and never dreamed what a tempest of remorse she had stirred up in two hearts.

Well, remorse meant repentanoe, and repentance meant reparation. "We must take him baok everywhere and show what he can really do," said Sister Helen as she lingered behind with me at Craig's gate, pretending to fasten my Bash. 1'

So back we went Our faces, long as the shadows of the falling even ing, told every girl friend that something was wrong, and when we had played and they had played and Cousin Linn had played they knew what it was. And when we had closed the last gate and turned homeward we were two sad and conscience stricken girls and one silent and solemn man.

But as we neared. the house Cousin Linn'8 downcast eyes began slowly to turn toward us, and as they fell upon our woebegone countenanoes the proternaturally grave lines went out of his face like a dissolving view in a stereopticon, and he fell down—the man actually fell flat down in a fit $

And we solemnly picked up our skirts and left him there groveling in a oonvulsion of laughter that soared the birds from every tree in the blook.

Cousin Linn came again

the house

many times afterward. He often played for us, but the painful subject was never referred to. We did not consider him awkward any more. In faot I was beginning to think him quite handsome when one day I came unobserved into the garden, where he and Helen sat, and heard her ask for the first time his forgivenness for the trick that had recoiled so shamefully upon us.

I thought the man would fall into one of his hateful fits and turned to go, but he only bent over her and whispered his reply, while I stole back through the trees to the house,

So the end of it nil was that bad a new oousin, and, though she is three or four times removed, to this day 1 love her well, for she is my sister Helen.— Cincinnati Post

Polleemen ee Models.

Phil May seldom lets slip a chance to play a practical joke. Not long ago he needed a.polioeman for a model. He wont out into the street and aooosted the first one he met saying who he was and what he wanted. "Oome to my house at noon tomorrow," said Phil May, and he gave the man his address.

Then he walked on a oouple of streets farther until be met another bobby. This one was also willing to pose, and he was likewise told to appear at noon of the following day. The artist wandered about London

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making appointments with polioemen. The next day at noon there was an entire platoon of police in front of Phil May's residence. A crowd collected, and the reason for sooh an array was freely discussed. Some asserted that a den of anarchists had been discovered and was about to be raided. Others hinted at a murder or at some other mystery.

A few minutes after 13 o'clock Phil May oame to the door and invited all the polioemen into his garden. There he lined them up and inspected them. He picked out the man most suitable for his purpose, then handed to each of the others an envelope containing the regulation foe for a sitting and dismissed than.—Pearson's Weekly..

"Say," snapped the busy man, "my time is worth a dollar a minute—a dollar a minute. Do you bear?" "That jist shows the difference in folks," said the gentleman with the shoe laoes to selL "Onoe I done a whole year's time fai only fS.4A. elis Journal.

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"Pie—0. sir, do yoa need t*rmaid*T" "Chambermaids! Whs* tow* If chambermaids? Dis la a hotel aol« iDdsia bocuKL"—Truth. mip

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A GIRL TANDEM.

fks Dmay Sisters of San Franciseo Are the Toongest In the World.

Though the little Benner brothers of Philadelphia are the youngest tandem riders on record, San Francisoo has the honor of producing the youngest and no doubt the speediest, girl tandem sooroh tax.

There are few cyclers who visit the pask who have not seen tiny Clotilde and her tinier sister, Laurine JDevany, mounted on a miniature "bicycle built for two," flying along the roadway with the speed and nonchalance of trained racers. Their tandem, with its 24 inch wheels and low frame, weighing in all less than 25 pounds, is a thing of beauty, to which are added the youthful charm and grace of the fair riders.

Much speculation has been caused by their free and easy riding as to just what speed they oould make, but no •ym wm*-ap?

test has ever been made beoause their father has always frowned upon the idea, cautioning the little tots at all times against overexertion.

Sometimes, however, quite unoon soiously, they develop uncommon speed when out for one of their daily spins, which never fails to attract attention. Indeed, for children whose combined ages is only 13 yoars, their riding is wonderful, that of Laurine especially, for she is scarcely 5 years old.

On ocoasions the elder brocner of these two little record breakers, who is himself far from being 10 years old, alternates with Miss Clotilde and oooupies the elevated seat behind pert and rosy Laurine. He is a clean cut, straight limbed little chap, and his strength goes far toward relaxing the work imposed upon his younger sister when the road in steep and difficult—San Fran* Cisco Examiner.

Bobtail Tennis.

Here is a new game, invented by two western boys. They have named it' 'bobtail tennis," and it is played with a flat wooden paddle bat something like a tennis raoquet The bat is 18 inches long, and in the oval or paddlo part of the bat nine holes an inoh in diameter are bored. One of the holes is exaotly in the middle, and the others are arranged at even distances around the sides of the paddle about two inches from the soaOjt 7,r*-r '5T*

The middle* ho!eTsBnumt^red 0 and the other holes are numbered 20, 25 and 80, according to the looation. At the end of the bat, opposite the handle, is a string two or three feet long, and to the free end of the string a wooden ball is tied. This ball is somewhat larger in diameter than the holes are, so that it will not drop through.

The object of the game is to throw the ball in the air and so catch it upon the bat that it will lodge in one of the holea Should the ball stick in the middle hole it.counts nothing, if it falls in a 20 hole it counts 20, and so on. Should the ball fall out of a hole immediately after lodging in it no score is made.

Any number may play the game, and it is not so simple.asJLL looks. The object of the string is to keep the ball from rolling to a distance, and it complicates the game somewhat by jerking the ball back suddenly when least expected. This is a fine game for a rainy afternoon in the house, and any boy can make oue of the bats.—Chicago Reoord.

Joe's Angleworm Farm.

Joe Crewdye is a Maine boy who has an angleworm form. He started it a year ago and has made nearly $100 by selling worms to city men who go fishing in the lakes and strefuna of the oountry in which Joe lives.

The worm colony is kept in a large box, which covers the floor of an old shed Joe filled the box with soil to within 18 inches of the top. He and his brothers began gathering the worms last year during the fall planting, and he thinks he put more than three bar relsctf the fish bait in the anglewprm incubator. *.

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The worms thrived and increased in number even during the oold days of winter, when the thermometer went down to 25 below aero. Fishermen leave orders for the worms with the grooeryman in the little town near Joe's farm home, and the worms are delivered to the anglers. Joe sells his worms for $1 a quart, and he guarantees his bait to be good, big worms, which will tempt the most cunning fish to take the hook.

The boys in the neighborhood say that when one of the Crewdye boys plays on his mouth orgai^he worms work themselves out of the dirt and wriggle and aquizxn as though they enjqyed the music. Joe says they do nothing of the sort, for he does not know bow to play

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Little Things.

The influences of little things are as real and as constantly about us as the air we breathe or the light by which we sea These are the small—the often invisible the almost un thought of strands which are inweaving and twisting by millions to bind us to character. —Ttyon Edwards.

Wwumf QsmUM.

Edward was watching mamma as die brushed the letters of bar typewriter with a brush which she kept for that purpoaa After looking for a few moments he islred, "Mamma, an yoa cleaning Ma teeth?"—Yanth's 'Oanpan* Ion. .J

Mrs. Dr. Evans, wife of the president of £fedding oollege. Ilia., whohag made the subject ol dress a careful study for 20 years, declares that women first in rented trousers and that men subsequently adopted them.

This means that the women, having first adopted a oostume which seemed best adapted to them, the men. envious of their better choioe, appropriated it and then drove them out This, at least is what Mrs. Evans alleges that she has found after long investigation of the reoords.

The faot that among the Chinese and other nations of great antiquity the women still wear trousers and the men skirts gives strength to Mrs. Evans' assertions.

If these be true, the reproach of women for imitating male attire falls to the ground. It is the men who, having evicted women from her originally chosen attire, are the real oopyista

Of a truth, history is ooming to the rescue of women and furnishing a warrant for such as are bent upon recovering their stolen possessions.—Boston Glob&

III?, The Daintiness of PrsMi.

"What I like about a woman's dress just now is its suggestiveness Of the attention that is paid to the underside of things," remarked a masouline critic. "I like the pretty linings that one oatohes a glimpse of under the ripple erf a jacket or the displaced fold of a cloth skirt and the silk' pettiooat with its ruffles and laoe trimmings, that show every now and again when milady gets into her carriage or runs up the steps of a brownstone front I like the faint odor of violets that you notice when you pick up her glove, veil or fan, and the dean lode of her well kept hair and hands, for an up to date woman is a dainty creature, despite her 'tailor modes' and knickerbockers and mannish little affectations. 'The gods see inside,' said the eastern artisan as he finished the interior of his vase with the same care that he bestowed upon tbe-exterior, and it is precisely that which I admire about the women nowadays—the evident daintiness of their belongings."— New York Tribune. fn'

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I would like to know how we are to help being offioe girls since a cruel fate has decreed that we be such?

I would also like to know why, being office girls, we differ in any way from those you call home girls? To be sure, you were kind enough to say we are not less pure or honest, but small spaoe for thanks, you cannot say otherwise.

Have we not the same right to earn our living, when compelled, as men have? And can wo not be as honest and respectable in so doing as girls that oan stay at home? This thing of blaming girls continually for low wages is becoming monotonous. We must live. What would beoome of our mothers, our brothers and sisters that depend on us for their daily bread if we were "not uffice girls?—Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.

Wedding Changes.

Even the apparently oast iron traditional wedding customs are subject to slight ripples of change in these variety seeking days. At a London wedding not very long ago a younger sister of tHe bride gave her away in default of other rolatives. It is also getting to be much in vogue to have no wedding reception immediately following the oeremony. The muoh more sensible plan of deferring it until the return of the young pair from their bridal trip has been observed in a number of instances. Tho reception then takes plaoe at the bride'8 residence and is, in faot merely the actual ceremony festivity postponed. -New York Times.*

A Darning Cjntv

New Hampshire women have organized a darning oluL On a certain day of each week the inembers wend their way to the home of tho hostess for the occasion, and they take their darning with them. They work together around a large table, on whioh each has piled the articles she has brought with her. Stockings are most in evidence, but all sc.rts of garments modestly appear before the session is over. Some one reads aloud, conversation has an occasional inning, and at 5 o'clock the olub members go proudly home, refreshed and with the week's darning thoroughly and pleasantly dona .,

The Little New Woman's Version.

A little girl in the Fourth (Dr. Hall's) Chicago church has made a valuable contribution to the new woman literature. She told her mamma the story of Adam and Eve. "Dod, be made Adam, an he put him in a big garden, an Adam he was so, so lonesome, an then he putted him to sleep, he did, an then be took out his brains an made a woman of the brains, an then Adam he wasn't lonesome no mora "—Chicago Interior.

The Donbass Stag.

The duchess ring is the latest novelty. It consists of a band of gold, with an opal, showing blue lights in aolear setting, surrounded by diamonds. Two tiny scrolls of gold project on either side, and a shield formed of many scrolls is studded with diamonds and reaches beyond the knuckle. It is to be worn only in t*M evening and cannot be purchased fa leas than $500.

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