The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 37, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 12 January 1911 — Page 7

(/j STORY The Courage of Captain Plum By JAMES I OLIVER CURWOOD (C vyr-ght 1908 by Bobbs-Merrill Co.) U SYNOPSIS. Capt. Nathaniel Plum, of the sloop Typhoon, lands seeretly on Heaver island, Stronghold of the Mormons. He is sud- ' flenly confronted by Obadiah Price, an eccentric old man and a member of the Mormon council, who tells him that he*is expected. Price ignores Nat’s protestations that he has got the wrong man, and bargains for the ammunition aboard the ■loop. He binds Nat by a solemn oath to Deliver a package to Franklin Pierce, president of the United States. Near Price’s cabin Nat sees the frightened face 3f a young woman who disappears in the Darkness, leaving an odor of lilacs. It develops that Plum’s visit to the island Is to demand settlement from the king, Strang, for the looting of his ship some time previously, supposedly by Mormons. Casey, the mate, has been: left in charge of the sloop with orders to bombard St. James if Nat does not return within a certain time. Price takes Nat in the darkness, to the king’s home, and through a window he sees the king and his wives, among whom is the lady of the lilacs, whom Price says is the sev- • enth wife. Plum calls at the king’s office, where he is warned by a_ young woman that his life is in flanger. Strang receives Plum cordially, professes indignation when he hears the (captain's grievance, and promises to punish the guilty. Plum again receives warning of his danger. He rescues Neil, whp is being publicly whipped. The king orders Arbor Croche, the sheriff and father of Winnsome, the girl who warned Nat, Io pursue and kill the two men. J Plum and Nell plan to escape on the Typhoon. Plum learns that Marion, the girl of the lilacs, . is Neil’s sister. She is not yet married to Strang. Plum suggests carrying her oft «n the ship. Neil approves. CHAPTER Vl—Continued. Horror, not fear, sent an involuntary shiver through Nathaniel. “They can’t reach usj” assured Neil. There was the glitter;of triumph in his eyes. “This was to have been my way of escape after I killed Strang. A quarter of a mile. deeper in the swamp I have a canoe?’ He picked up the gun and box and began forcing his way through the dense alder along the edge of the stream. “I’d like to stay and murder those d igs,” he called back, “but it wouldn’t be policy.’ For a time the crashing of their bodies through the dense growth of the swamp drowned all other sound. Five minutes later Neil stopped on the edge of a wide bog. The hounds were giving fierce tongue in the forest on their left and their nearness sent Nathaniel’s hand to fils pistol Neil saw the movement and laughed. “Don’t like the sound, eh?” he said. “We get used to it oh Beaver island. They’re just about at the place where they tore little Jim Schredder to pieces a few weeks back. Schredder tried to kill one of the elders for stealing his wife while he!was away on a night’s fishing trip.” He plunged to his knees in the bog. “They caught him i just before he reached the swamp,” he flung back over his shoulder. “Two minute* more and he would have been safe.” Nathaniel, sinking to his knees In the mire, forged up beside alm. “Lord!” he exclaimed, a& a breath of air brought a sudden burst of bloodcurdling cries to them. Ts they’d loosed them on us sooner—” He shivered at the terrible grimace Nell turned on him. “Had they slipped the leashes when we escaped, we would have been with poor Schredder now; Captain Plum. By the way”—he stopped a moment to wipe the water and mud from his face—” three days after they covered Schredder’s bones with muck out there, the elder took Schredder’s wife! She was too pretty for a fisherman.” He started on, but halted suddenly with uplifted hand. No longer could they hear the baying of the dogs. “They’ve struck the creek!” said ■ Neil. “Listen!” After an Interval of silence (here came a long mournful howl. “Treed —treed or inj the water, that’s what the howling means. How Croche and his devils are howling now!” A curse was mingled with Neil’s breath as he forced his way through the bog. Twenty rods farther on they came to a slime covered bit of water on which was floating a dugout canoe. Immense relief replaced the anxiety in Nathaniel’s face as he climbed into it At that moment he was willing to fight a hundred men for Marlon’s sake, but snakes and bogs and bloodhounds wete entirely outside his pale of argument and he - exhibited no hesitation in betraying this fact to his companion. For a quarter of a mile Nell forced the dugout through water viscid with slime and rotted substft’ **..before the clearer channel of W eek was reached. As they progressed the stream constantly became deeper and more navigable until It finally began to show signs of a current and a little later, under the powerful impetus of Nell’s paddle, the canoe shot from between the dense shores into the open lake. A mile away Nathaniel discerned the point of

forest beyond which the Typhoon was hidden. He pointed out the location of the ship to his companion. “Ton are sure there Is a small boat waiting for you on the point?” asked Neil. “Yes, since‘early morning.” Nel! w as absorbed in thought for some time as he drove the canoe through the tall rice grass that grew thick along the edge of the shore. “How would It be If I landed you on the point and met you tonight at Obadiah’s?” he asked suddenly. “It is probable that after we get Marlon aboard your ship I will not return to the island again, and it is quite necessary that I run down the coast tor a couple of miles —sor—” He did not finish his reason, but added: ‘1 can make the whole distance in this rice so there Is no danger of being seen. Or you might lie off the point yonder and I would Join you early this eve--nlng.” “That would be a better plan If we must separate,” said Nathaniel, whose voice betrayed the reluctance with which he assented to the project. He had guessed shrewdly at Neil’s motive. 'ls it possible that we may have another young lady passenger?" he asked banteringly. There was no answering humor to this in Nell’s eyes. “I wish we might!” he said quietly. “We can!” exclaimed Nathaniel. “My ship—" “It is impossible. I am speaking of Winnsome. Arbor Croche’s house is in the heart of the town and guarded by dogs. I doubt if she would go, anyway. She has always been like a little sister to Marlon and me and she has come to believe —something—as we do. I hate to leave her.” “Obadiah told me about her mother," ventured Nathaniel. “He said that some day Winnsome will be a queen.” “I knew her mother,” replied Neil, as though he had not heard Nathaniel’s last words. He looked frankly into the other’s race. “I worshipped her!” . , “Oh-h-h!” “From a distance, he hastened. “She was as pure as Winnsome Is now. Little Winn looks like her; Some day she will be as beautiful." “She is beautiful now.” “But she is a mere child. Why, It seems only a year ago that I was tot&g her about on my shoulders! And —by Georgenthal was a year before her mother died! She is sixteen now.” Nathaniel laughed softly. “Tomorrow she will be making love, Neil, and before you know it she will be married air! have a family of her own. I tell you she is a woman —and if you are not a fool you will take her away with Marion.” With a powerful stroke of his paddle Nell brought the canoc in to the shore. “Thene!” ae whispered, “You have only to cross this point to reach your boat’’ He stretched out his long arm fliiil Neil Forced the Dugout Through the Water. and In the silence the two shook hands. “If you should happen to think of a way—that we might get Winnsome—” he added, coloring. The sudden grip of his companion’s fingers made him flinch. “We must!” said Nathaniel. He climbed ashore and watched Neil until he had disappeared In the wild rice. Then he turned into the woods. He looked at his watch and saw that it was only 2 o’clock. He was conscious of no fatigue; he was not conscious of hunger. To him the whole world had suddenly opened with glorious promise and In the still depths of the forest he felt like singing out his rejoicing. He had never stopped to ask himself what might be the end of this passion that had overwhelmed him; he lived only in the present, in the knowledge that Marion was not a wife, and that It was he whom fate had chosen for her deliverance. He reasoned nothing beyond the sweet eyes that had nailed upon him, that had burned their gratitude, their hope and their despair upon his soul; nothing beyond the thought that she would soon be free from the mysterious influence of the Mormon king and that or days and nights after that she ould be on the seme ship with him. 4e had emptied the pockets of the coat he had given Neil and now he brought forth the old letter which Obadiah had rescued from the sands. He read it over and over again as he sat for a few moments In the cool of the forest and there was no trouble in his face now. It was from a girl. He had known that girl, years ago, as Neil knew Winnsome; in years of wandering he had almost forgotten her—until this letter came. It had brought many memories back to him with shocking clearness. The old folk were still in the little home us'

hill: they received his letters; they received the money he sent them each month —but they wanted him. The girl wrote with meritless candor. He had been four years and it was time for him to return. She told him why. She wrote what they, tn their loving fear of Inflicting pain, would never have dared to say. At the end. In a postscript, she had asked for his congratulations on her approaching marriage. To Nathaniel this letter had been a torment He saw the truth, as he had never seen it before—that his place was back there in Vermont, with his father and mother; and that there was something unpleasant in thinking of the girl as belonging to another. But now matters had changed. The letter was a hope and inspiration to him and he smoothed it out with tender care? What a refuge that little home among the Vermont hills would make for Marion! He trembled at the thought and his heart sang with the promise «t it as he went his way again through the thick growth of the woods. It was half an hour before he came but upon the beach. Eagerly he scanned the sea. The Typhoon was nowhere in sight and for an instant the gladness that- had been in bis heart gave place to a chilling fear. But the direction of the wind reassured him. Casey had probably moved beyond the jutting promontory, that swung in the form of a cart wheel from the base of the point, that he might have sea room in case of something worse than a stiff breeze. But where was the small boat? With every step adding to his anxiety Nathaniel hurried along the narrow rim of beach. He went to the very tip of the point which reached out like the white forefinger of a lady’s hand into the sea; he passed the spot where he had lain concealed the preceding day; his breath came faster and faster; he ran, and called softly, and at last halted In the arch of the cart wheel with the fear full-flaming in his breast. Over all those miles of sea there was no sign of the sloop. From end to end of the point there was no boat. What did it mean? Breathlessly he tore his way through the strip of forest on the promontory until all Lake Michigan to the south lay before his eyes. The Typhoon was gone! Was it possible that Casey had abandoned hope of Nathaniel’s return and was already lying off St. James with shotted gun? The thought sent a shiver of despair through him. He passed to the opposite side of the point and followed it foot by foot, but there was no sign of life, no distant flash of white that might have been the canvas of the sloop Typhoon. There was only one thing for him to do—wait. So he went to his hiding place of the day before and watched the sea with straining eyes. An hour passed and his still aching vision saw no sign of sail; two hours —and the sun was falling in a blinding glare over the Wisconsin wilderness. At last he sprang to his feet with a hope less cry and stood for a few moments undecided. Should he wait until night with the hope of attracting the attention of Neil and joining him in his canoe or should he hasten in the direction of St. James? In the darkness he might miss Neil, unless he kept up a constant shouting, which Would probably bring the Mormons down upon him; if he went'to St James there was a possibility of reaching Casey. He still had faith in Obadiah and he was sure that the old man would help him to reach his ship; he might even assist him In his scheme of getting Marion from tile island. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Where the Women Come In. Tie after tie the clerk placed before hard-to-pleuse Percy. Red, yellow, blue, green, striped—all the colors of the rainbow. Some he liked and laid aside; others he returned to the sales man. But, to Percy’s great Interest the salesman did not return all the “rejected” to the boxes whence they had come. Many he placed together in one capacious tray. “Aren’t you putting that back In the wrong box?” exclaimed Percy, at last, his curiosity aroused, as yet another rejected was tossed into the box of failures. “Oh, no,” replied the man. “We have orders, when five or six men turn down a tie, to take it out and put it aside.” “And is it then returned to the mar kers?” queried Percy. “Oh, dear, no! We sell them to ladles who come in here to buy ties for their husbands.” Didn't Like Course Dinner*. A colored woman, native of the south, had been working for a flat dwelling family of moderate means in the East end, but' resigned recently to accept a place bringing higher wages with a wealthy family who lived in a large house on Euclid heights and have their dinner served in courses every night just as If there was company. This colored woman had been brought up to put everything on the table at once, with the exception possibly of the dessert, and did not take kindly to the course system. A few days ago her former mistress met her on the street and in quired how she liked her new place. “Oh, not ve’y well,” she replied. "I don’t like this hyah way of su’vin’ things in cou’ses. The’s too much shiftin’ o’ the dishes fo* the fewness o’ the vlttles.” Matter of Plrnclple. “Is he lazy?" “I would hardly say that You’ve heard the expression: “Unseen,!) haste?” "Why, certainly.” "Well, all haste looks that waj

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DAINTY HOME FROCKS SIMPLE TEXTURES ARE USED TO ADVANTAGE. » To Seem Up-to-Date Gown* Must Be Skimpy, Slim, Youthful and Eternally Fresh—Little Material Is Required. The young and good-looking business girl naturally pines for new and pretty clothes each season. If she must buy her wardrobe ready made she finds the outlay considerable, for all the ethics of business life call for quite good clothes. Hope comes with the price reductions that follow Christmas, when everything falls from a third to a half of the former price. Then sometimes the most excellent bargains may be picked up in the way of exclusive dress models, distinctively winter hats, furs, etc. ‘ Knowing this, Indeed, many business women wait until this time to do their winter buying, going along content with last year’s things, changed a little with home tinkering, until the great shops announce the bargains. This year there is a likelihood of finding the reduced things cheaper than ever before, as the very eccentricity of present styles will make shopkeepers chary of holding on to their wares too long. Yet more than three months of cold weather remain for their usefulness? and there is great satisfaction in having the stylish thing at last A tour of the shops already displaying cut prices convinces me that velvet dresses are to be much cheapened; velveteen, corduroy and velvets trimmed cloth will also come under the head of things the shops will want to dispose of at once. And how smart is velvet just how, any imitation of +his soft and .becoming material, so that even if the gown is somewhat shopworn, with a little fixing it will be wearable and very up to date. Costumes in materials adapted to other seasons will be dearer, but a warm gown, furs and a winter hat are the essentials now and so why take heed of the distant morrow? Here and there already one finds, too, a frock trimmed with a feather or fur band, the material a pale cloth or a clinging veiling, that is just the thing for the one smart frock a business woman needs. This purchase would be the best bib and tucker, the

WARM SHOE FOR THE BABY Suggestion Which May Be Carried Out In Satin, Fine Cloth, Kid or Suede. Soft warm shoes prettily embroidered always make a nice present for baby, and we give a suggestion for a ialnty little shoe which may be carried out in satin, very fine cloth, kid or suede; the top of long evening gloves may be very successfully used tor the purpose. The toe part should be embroidered with some small floral design, such as the conventionalized wild roses shown in our Illustration, and th* shoe should then be lined with soft silk and bound throughout 'with ribbon, and finished with two narrow straps, on one end of which a button Is placed, on the other a buttonhole. The way in which the shoe 1* mounted is shown very clearly In the small sketch at the top, and soles may be made in the same way with an interlining of flannel-between the material and lining, the sides of shoe and th* sol* being seamed together. Newest Mesh Bags. The girl who sees a chance of th* long-desired silver or gold mesh purse coming her way this Christmas should make the prospective giver understand that her heart will be broken unless she gets the most up-to-date models of the mesh bags for the wrist This means an upper compartment in two divisions, the one containing a vanity compartment, the other a coin purse. These do not interfere with the compactness of the bag and prov* highly useful

costume for half holiday visiting, Sunday outings with friends, the restaurant dinner dress. Along with it will be shown the skimpy street suit of coat and skirt, the jacket single breasted, youthful in slim cut, the skirt narrow, short and very girlish. This dress in a cloth or serge in quiet color realizes the dapper business frock long needed, and if it is of velvet, velveteen or corduroy, it may be the one good frock In the smart worker’s wardrobe. For the grandest occasions elegant details may further set off the dress worn with plainer ones on usual days—a handsome- collar made of imitation Irish lace, a white waist of lace net or marquisette, white gloves, fresh shoes, the Sunday-go-to-meeting hat and the brooch or chain. > BLACK VELVET TOQUE. I u k If Trimmed in front with large dull •silver lace. The butterfly has a twisted satin body and long feelers of black osprey and jet

FIREPLACES ARE POPULAR Suitable Furnishings Are Hard te Find Owing to the Increased Demand. Open fireplaces have become so pop ular and are being used so generally In all the rooms of the home nowadays that the demand for andirons has increased accordingly. Suitable and irons are not always easy to find, and frequently we see a beautiful fireplace spoiled because it has been supplied with andirons out of proportion and o! an altogether inappropriate style. Sometimes, too, a luxurious big living room fireplace is given a pair oi dear little old-time irons which would do exactly for a cozy little bedroom, while small fireplaces ere furnished with huge, heavy, modern brass &adirons. Authorities on the subject tell us that brass is suitable for the formal rooms, while the simpler apartments should have iron, tipped with brass knobs. In a spacious hall, where the fireplace is correspondingly large, the hearth looks well if a heavy wrought iron grille, with tall andirons to match, is used. For rooms done in a quaint oldtime style of furnishing some of the reproductions of the Hessian designs of andiron*, painted in colors, are rather good. One also sees occasionally andirons of brass and copper, Id Italian designs—sea horses or caricatures of men and beasts. In roaming through the shops one Is fascinated with the assortment of fireplace fur nishings. A complete set included a fine old brass fender with claw feet a pair of steeple topped andiron* shovel tongs and the heavy ring* ta hold them to the jam of the flreplace These would fit well into a moden colonial house. Leather Jewel Boxe*. Attractive jewel boxes which make most acceptable Christmas present! are se«n in green and red Russian leather. They are shaped like tiny steamer trunks, and have trays that are lifted on hinges and stand out o* the side when the box is opened. This Is most convenient, as it obviates th* necessity of removing the trays from the box. They are lined with velvet, the green ones in deep orange and the red in light tan. High Belt Modish. f A gown of foulard which had a cream-colored ground with goldenbrown figures has a skirt which seems to be ope big puff and Is caught at th* hem into a wide piece of solid brows satin. Uffie corsage appeal* all bell for the belt is so high that it extends under the arm*.

CHINA’S BIG WEALTH FABULOUS HOARD OF GOLD IN SECRET VAULTS. Imperial Treasure May Be Used to Provide a Navy for the EmpireVast Accumulation of Year* of Tribute. It 18 proposed to select the sons of high Manchu officials attending the Nobles* school at Pekin and send them to the naval colleges at Nanking and Tientsin for a preliminary course of study preparatory to a foreign education In the navies, of the friendly Powers. It is reported that the Chinese government has already arranged with the British authorities to train the cadets on board British warships and tiut permission has been granted by the regent to select 100 students at once. The absence of competent native officers to train the men for the new navy and command the ships is a factor in the scheme occupying the serious attention of the authorities. Students are now being educated in England, France and Germany, and a request has been made to have the number Increased. Whether the naval academies of Europe and America will be as freely opened to China as they were to Japan is problematical for there is a tendency to discontinue such courtesies. The escapade of a Chinese naval pupil on board the French training ship Borda, who decamped to Belgium with papers stolen from an officer’s cabin, has served to intensify the dislike of French officers to the admission of foreign cadets to the training ships. There is a revulsion of feeling in France at least to this system, and the officers are complaining, that after educating the Japanese they are now expected to teach the Chinese. The recent incident of a Chinese military student in Japan who acquired the mobilization plans of the regiment and other valuable information, led to the summary dismissal of all Chinese students from the army, says the Journal of the American Asiatic Association. Tfie order, it appears, was subsequently rescinded. Os course the all important part of the scheme is to raise the funds. And as already pointed out, every cash ot revenue entering Pekin has a capacious maw open to receive it. The desperate strain of the government to raise funds for the navy program are fully disclosed by the many proposed schemes for this purpose. But the persistence of the regent and his advisers in carrying through the scheme, in spite of the apparent lack of sufficient resources and his refusal to accept foreign financial assistance suggest another view of the situation which has not been touched.

While the government is poor and in financial straights there remains the great wealth of the imperial family to be reckoned with. Overlooked by the allied troops, who ransacked the palace from end to end, the accumulated treasure of years lies untouched in the secret vaults over which the foreign' soldiers lit their camp fires, unconscious of the wealth underneath. The tribute of years to the Empress Dowager and former sovereigns are here hoarded and available for the country’s defense. Native reports are to the effect that an Investigation by the chief of the Imperial household disclosed the fact that the treasure amounted to 19,000,000 taels of gold and 999,000,000 taels of silver, or roughly speaking some $1,000,000,000 gold. • This amount of actual treasure is enormous, and it may be greatly exaggerated. But there is every reason to believe that the imperial treasure, 1 must be vast, as the tribute from the I provinces, gifts from officials and oth- ’ er perquisites of the throve been rolling into Pekin ror JSfil’S. The money has not been expended on any great public improvements or buildings or diverted into any provincial reform scheme, so it is safe to believe that it exists. Thirty-Six Year* a Bellboy. A tourist arrived at a hotel near the Grand Central station recently, and when the bellboy, in answer to the clerk’s call, stepped forward to take the hand baggage to the room assigned to the new arrival the latter looked quizzically at the “boy” and said: “You look enough like the boy who took up things for me here 25 years . ago to be his brother." The servant smiled, and said: “You are nearly right, sir, because I’m the man who waited on you then.” On further questioning he said: "I was one of the old boys at that time, and pretty soon it’ll be 36 years since I’ve been bellboy* in this house.” —New York Tribune.

Proceeding With Caution. “Why do you Insist on keeping that political enemy of yours before the public?” asked one statesman. “You are constantly celebrating him.” “I’m not celebrating him,” replied the other. “But I want him to be sufficiently noticeable to keep him from coming Into some convention as a dark horse and starting life anew.” Endless Entertainment. . ‘What are you so deeply Interest’d in?” “It’s a serial story about some people who are saving for a steam yacht” “Good story, is it?” "Ye*; and I expect it will run on tor V*en and years.”

WOMEN FIRST RULERS MAN MERE INCIDENT IN MIBTV AGES OF PAST. Since Domination of Lord of Creation World Has Steadily Progressed In Baseness and Cruelty, Says Prof. Clark. Women were the first rulers of the world, and since the domination of man the world had progressed stead’ ily in cruelty and baseness, said Prof. W. E. Clark of the University of Chicago. That long before the advent of Christianity women reigned and man was merely an incident, the speaker declared, and added that at that time the world was less harsh and mor* sympathetic. Prof. Clark pointed out hdw man gradually, In the course of centuries, shattered the rule of woman through the use of his greater animal power* and after supplanting her as rulers enslaved her. He declared that woman’s rule be* gan with the origin of the very dawn of civilization itself. In the first state of primitive man, he said, the relationship between fatb* er and child was not known; the right of the mother to her children was u» disputed. He said that the father, having no part in the family, remained a wanderer, leaving the mothdr in full control. However, infants were helpless and eventually love was.born and man admitted to the sacred precincts of civilization and organized society. “I am not relating these facts for the purpose of censuring man, but to show the result of humanity of a religion that exalts one sex above another. I think we are justified in wondering what would have been the result if Jehovah had been a woman. “If the feminine principle had dom> inated the Jewish conception of deity, I do not belieye that history would have recorded some of the things I have referred to. If the mother spirit had been given the first place in religion, human life would have been far more highly developed than it is today. I do not believe that there would have been any modern wars ot conquest waged against neighboring tribes. “I do not believe there is any excuse for poverty in the midst of abundant wealth. There is no natural reason for the continuance of extreme poverty in this or in any land. And 1 am inclined to the opinion that a universal belief In the motherhood ot God would have been far more beneficial to the race than has been the belief 'in the fatherhood of God.’’—Chicago Correspondent Indianapolis News.

The Hoop Pole Man. The Maine hoop pole man makes even better wages than his brother, the gum picker. The hoop pole man follows along the wake of the loggers. He barbers the face of the hillside oi stuff that no one else wants. He is after the second growth, as the young birch and ash are called which spring up around the rotting stumps of great trees. The hoop pole man takes a hors* with him on his tours. He cuts tha poles and the horse hauls them to camp by daylight. Evenings the pole man fashions the hoops with a draw shave, sitting beside a roaring fire and pulling at his black pipe. Sometime* . the poles are sold round, but the harvester who trims his own stuff and shaves the hoops receives two or three cents each for the finished product, and that pays. — Felling Trees By Wire. A German inventor has discovered r away to fell trees by incandeatjert* wirflS. fes invention consists of an ordinary eteel wire one millimeter in diameter, Bmall attachment worked by a motor. Th e wire rapidly and evenly through the trw trunk, being heated to thC ntiFnlUß point by the friction. During the trial of the wire-cutter a tree 4? Inches thick was cut through in lew than six minutes. One of the advanj tages of this machine Is that it cuts * tree close to the ground, or in tbs ground, through the roots. It produce* steam instead of sawdust, and leave* a clean, smooth cut covered by * layer of charred wood so extremal! thin as to show through It the reoora ed age of the tree.

A New One on Him. J A youth from 6 Calhoun county, nit nois, which has nothing but steamboat transportation, came over to Ellsberrw Mo., the other day to catch a Burling ton train to St. Bouis. He had never seen a train, and when the Hannibal local came rolling in M stood there gaping, watched it his* and steam, and finally pull out “I thought you was goin’ to St. Louf* on that train!” shouted the static*! agent, thrusting his head through th* window. “I was,” answered the youth, "bul they didn’t put down no gangplank.—< St Louis Post-Dispatch. Needed Glasses. “Pardon me, madam, but the way that man across the aisle is staring a« you must be very offensive. Do you wish me to interfere?" “Oh, no, thank you. That’s my husband.” “Your husband?” r “Yea. He'S very nearsighted, and thinks I’m somebody else.l—fife ohaege,