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futher south and free from many disadvan-
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It has the most perfect drainage. being a
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of the long leaf pine. It ts wtthm the in-
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much of the mildness of the climate.
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’ C E. L‘N‘KI’VOOD.
' cation, as well as writing, was out of
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WON BY WHISTLING.
Hartley, or rather his wife, had been
giving a musical “At Home,” and aper-
formancc of siffleurs had proved the
hit- of the evening’s entertainment.
'An hour or so later, the “crowd” hav-
ing dispersed, Birdy Jackson, Hartley
and I were idly discussing the events
of the affair in the smoking-room.
.l ackson and I Were stopping over night .
with our host, bein‘g old chums of his,
and living some distance out- of town.
“No idea you could give us such a
ripping performance, Birdy,” remarked
Hartley; “and 'whcnyour wife joined
in I was perfectly astounded.”
Jackson laughed softly.
“No, she doesn’t do it at all badly,”
he admitted. “You know, Dick, theme’s
a bit ofromance attached to that whis-
tle of hers; in fact, it was the means of
bringing our matrimonial desires to an
abrupt point. at an extremely critical
period in our courtship."
Hartley gave me a. gentle kick.
“Then your union had a spice of ro-
mance about it?" he said.
“Rather! Unique in the annals of
love-making, I should say. But folks
are so confounded incredulous—nowa-
days, l've never attempted to tell 'the
yarn but once, and then I swore I’d
never do it again.”
But he had to on this occasion, and
soon began to interest us as follows:
“First of all, you must know, Mr.
liing”——addressing me—“l’m called
Birdy on account of having practiced
from earliest‘infancy a cheap form of
musical recreation. Though cuffed as
a boy, severely reprimanded for warb-
ling in slack business hours and sound-
ly execrated by the neighbors, I never-
theless persevered.
“A year this last summer I. came in
101‘ a. sum of money, which rendered me
a practically wealthy and independent
man, and to celebrate my good fortune
I threw up my business berth and went
into Yorkshire to spend a few weeks
with a professional bachelor friend
and to idle generally.
“While there I was introduced to a
Col. Alton and his daughter Evelyn, l
aged 22, who lived at the Chase, and“
were intimate friends of my chum.
ii ice girl she was; plenty of ‘go’ with-
out being the least ‘fast.’ In less than
a fortnight 1 was over head and cars in
love with her. The subsequent after-
noons at. the Chase were too hot for
lt-nnis. Col. AltOn spent them snooz-
ing in ins study. Evelyn’s elderly com-
}.anion and her father’s housekeeper—
ior Mrs. Alton had been dead some
years—nodded in the shade of her fa-
vorite elm, and my friend had invari-
ably to leave for an important case be-
fore the tea came out. Very nice of,
him, Iv thought.
“Thus thrown together Evelyn and I
monopolized the arbor. and I used to
amuse her by trilling selections from
the operas, (comic and serious), and she
would occasionally join in as a kind of.
fillip to my performances. Though a
woman in every respect, she could whis-
tle. In most of the well-known tunes
up to date or pathetically aged, she ex
celled, owing to the fact that during the
winter months for some years past she
had always officiated at the piano for the.
village popular concerts, when the vo-
cal and instrumental items were natur—
ally of an amusing and light order—at
{imes scare] y high—class, perhaps.
“Then came the time when the col-
onel had to be approached. The oldI
man gave me a prompt and curt refusal. '
He had other views for his child. I:
tried remonstrancc. then dogged pcr-'
sistcncy, but with no avail. Evelynl
stood out like a brick. ‘ This burst of
independence resulted in her immediate
banishment to regions unknown to me,
under the surveillance of a relative of
mature age and experience, and all com~ i
munication between us strenuously de- '
nied and forestalled. All chanccs of_
clopement, even, were reduced to nil. ‘
“A few days" later I left my friend‘s
for Bournemouth, there to recruit my
shattered health and think things over
quietly. I was crushed for the time be-
ing. As I alighted from my cab at thc‘
entrance to the North Cliff. where 1"
had taken rooms, an elderly lady came
down the steps. Her face seemed some-
what familiar to me, though I could not
at the time recall to mind when and
where I had seen it before. When she
started as she saw me, and somewhat
hurriedly mentored the hotel, I was fur-
‘lhenmystified. A thought struck me as
l was signing my name in the hotel reg-
ister of visitors some time later. Two
pages back I found an entry: ‘Miss Al-
ton and Miss E. Alton ’ I tumbled to it
in a second, then. The elderly lady I
had encountered was, undoubtedly, Col.
Alton’s sister, who had been staying at
the Chase and left two days after my ar-
rival in the villcgrn, and before I knew
anything of Evelyn I had once passed
her walking with the colonel, and she
must have recognized me again.
“I remarked on the entry to the clerk
in a casual way, and he volunteered the
information that Miss Alton had, but 2-.
few moments previously, given notice.
of her intention to vacate their apart-
ments the next morning. This stag~
gored me. Then Miss Alton certainly
did not know all, and decided on flight
as the only safe remedy under the cir-
cumstances.
“Not a glimpse could I catch of Ev-
(lyn. After dinner, from a search on
the pier I returned to the North (313T,
and sat disconsolately smoking out on
the balcony of my room in the growing
dusk. Almost unconsciously I lapsed
into melody, and appropriately com-
menced to warble softly: ‘Alice, Whef'e
Art Thou ?’ A slight movement on the
balloon y above mine, and one window to
the left. caused me to glance up. A
figure in White met. my gaze, with one
of its hands, as if demanding silence,
DOinting war-uingly to the window be~
hind her. Yes, it was Evelyn, but her
attendant dragon of an aunt was et'i-
dent-1y close at hand. Verbal communi-
the question. It was already too dark
for the deaf and dumb manipulation,
oven providtd she knew its working.
he been more cmnmunicative and ex-
An idea. suddenly flashed upon me.
Why not try? N it sooner thought of
than done. Softly 1 whispered the last
lines of ‘Whisper and I Shall Hear’ re-
frain. A slight shake of the head, and
then a rendering of ‘Good-by, Sweet-
heart, ‘Good-by,‘ floated down. Then
they were really gomg away. . *
“ ‘Evelyn, I don’t think it’s quite
proper for you lobe standing there.’
came a voice from within, and which,
by straining my ears, I could just over-
hear. My heart beat wildly, and the
girl turned to address her aunt with-
out leaving ‘he balcony.
“ ‘lt’s almost dark now. and I can’t
stay cooped up all the evening—our
last one, too: What does papa want
us back in such a hurry for?"
“‘Bccause he wishes it, my dear;
the. ’s all the reason I can give you.
You really must help me to finish the
packing in a few minutes.” ’
Then her aunt had revealed nothing,
and believed her vet to be in ignorance
of my presence at the hotel. Lucky,
but. the case was a desperate 0110. Evelyn
returned, in her former position and
leaned over again.
“ 'thre Are You Going To, My
Pretty Maid ‘3’ I began. There was a
momentary pans :, and then the an-
swer came in a line of ‘Homc, Sweet
Home,‘ from my darling's lips.
“ ‘I do wish you would drop that vul-
gar habit of whistling,‘ again came the
voice inside the window.
“ ‘But, auntie, there’s no piano to
sing to,’ was the somewhat. lame cx-
cusc. ‘1 must do something, and I can’t-
possibly shock anyone up itere.’
Then there was silence once more.
“Back to Yorkshire again. “No chance
there. Anyway, she still‘cared for me,
and I must put her affect-ion s to a. severe
test. It was our only chance of secur-
ing happiness. '
“ ‘Oh, Nannie, Wilt Thou Gang VI i’
Me?’ I pipctl. ‘
“ 'thre Are You Going To?’ was
again utilized in reply.
“I was stumped for the minute, but
a. bar or two of ‘Big Ben ’ a favorite
song of mine, camr: as a hazardous res-
cue. She understood, bless finer! but
a lengthy pause intervened before her
answer. Love and duty had a. hard
struggle. ’l‘nen: ‘No, Sir; No. Sir; No,
Sir; NO!’ was repealed four times In
succession.‘ She refused. then! But
why so emphatically? What a. silly
idiot 1 was! The fourth time the gzrl
in the song said ‘No‘ she mount ‘Yes.’
I breathed tgain.
"But about our departure. .Tnc morn-
ing York train via Bath left at 9:45.
The earliest Waterloo was 7.45, and we
should be et‘sily tracked and our tn-
tentions frustrated in consequence, if
we left it until then. I consulted my
watch. It was 9: 15. The night train up
left at 10:20. 'Oh, IVhy Should ‘v'r'e Whit
Till To-morrow‘?’ went 11p without. de-
lay. ‘All’s Well' ft om above soonsct-
iled that question satisfactorily, but-
was followed immediately {by a few
bars of ‘Bradshaw‘s Guide'. ditty. I'
knew what she wanted, so, \after a
slight hesitation, I warblcd: ‘Come.
Into the Garden, Maud,‘ and chirpcdl
ten times. ‘Hope on, dear loved one,
we shall meet again,‘ from ‘Drcnm
Faces,’ proved that I was clearly under-
stood, and then she turned to address
Miss Alton in loudcr tones than before.
“I declare you‘re nearly asleep,
auntie. I’m tired, and has c a headache,
too. We've a long journey before us,
so I think I 11 go to my room now.
Don’t disturb, there’s a dear; the pack-
ing won’t take long in the morning.
You’d better do the same.’
“ ‘A good idea, Evy; so we will,’ she
answered.
“I crcpt back, and a minute or two
latcr ‘Good nights’ were exchanged;
and the subsequent slam of a. floor noti—
tied that Evelyn had left for her apat t-
ments.
“By 0:45 I had settled up and left in-
structions that my heavy baggage, for-
tunately not unpacked, would be called
or sent for in the course of a week or
loss, dangling an old telegram form
in my hand as I did so, to give color to
my hasty (lcparture. At t-en prompt;
I picked up Evelyn under the pines in i
1110 hotel gardens, and, with a dressing
bag and a small Gladstone between us,
walked it to the station and eventually
reached London safely, early in the
morning. I put her in one hotel, where
I knew she would be safe, with strict
injunctions not to venture out till 1 had
fixed everything up for the ceremony,
and went myself to another. The longr
and short of it was that before. we Wore l
anything like tracked the deed had
been done by special license and the
colonel defeated for once in his life.
“Come round, did he? Yes, when he
afterward discovered that the man iti-
1'ended for his daughter had already
been engaged for two years, and got
married shortly after we did! Even I
could have told the old fellow that, had
plicit in the first instance, for my rival
turned out to be none other than the
friend I was visiting. He actually ad-
mits now he couldn‘t have wished her
a better match, bu t, anyhow, 116—”
And Birdy broke off into
Change it.”
He rose quietly from his seat and
gently opened the smoking-room door.
“Listen,” he said; “if you can’t quite
swallow the yarn, you will not fail to
take this in.”
Then he went through “0h, Come, My
Lady Fair,” from the “Gaiety Girl”
song. Scarcely had he concluded than
away from another quarter of the house
came the answering chorus of “I'm
coming,” from the negro melody, “Poor
OldJoe.” Half aminutelater in strolled
Mrs. Jackson and Hartley’s wife.
Bird y winked knowingly at us.
“I’ve just been telling them ho\v you
were practically wooed and won by
whistling, my dear,” he remarked to
his wife, “and they want another tune
before we turn in.”
Evelyn blushed. “No, sir,” etc.-, she
warbled three times. '
. Then Jackson took up his candle and
marched upstairs with the strains of
the national anthem on his lips—Tit-
llitsg
“Can’t
WENT HOME TO DIE.
The Old ,Man’s Face} Was Wreathed in
Smiles When They Found film.
They told me in the dining car of a
train on the Louisville & Nashville
road that in the smoking car was an
old coloredman who was going south
to see his old plantation home again
before death claimed him. By and
by I went in to have a talk with him.
He was wrinkled and white” haired, and
evidently very old, and whenI expressed
wonder that his friends in Kentucky
should have let him set out on such a
long journey he replied:
“Dey just couldn’t help deirselves,
sah. I tole de chill’en I was bound to
cum, an’ dey jes had to let me.”
“And how long since you left the
old plantation ?"
“Way back in web times, sah. I dun
went right off wid some Yankee sogers,
an’ dat’s de last I eber did see of Mars.
Thomases folks. Ize gwine down to
’sprise ’em.”
“Where is it?”
“Jest a leetle ways out o’ Selma. Dey
tell me da.’ am great changes ’bout
Selma, but I reckon I kin walk right
down de road an’ find de plantashun
in de night. Bress de Lawd, sah, but
I doan’ reckon I could hev closed my
eyes in deathif dcy hadn’t let me cum.
Dar’s bin sich a longin‘ to see de ole
place agin dat I couldn’t stand it.”
Three or four of us chipped in to
get his meals and make him comfort-
able, but we saw that the journey was
telling on his strength. On the morn—
ing of the day we were to reach Selma
I could see that he was weak and ner-
vous, and when I sat down beside him
he said:
“Ize feelin’ sort. 0’ skeart ’bout my-
self dis mawnin’. I had a dream last
night dat I was walkin’ long de road
an’ met a. funeral, an’ when I axed
who was gwine to be buried a. white
man spoke up and said: ‘
“ ‘Pon my soul, if dat hain’t Mars
Thomases old nigger Job, who runned
off doorin’ de wah! Heah, boy, let me
tole you somethin’. Yo’ has cum too
late to see yo’r ole mars; dat’s him in
de coffin, an’ he was a axin’ ’bout yo‘
jes dé day befo’ he died.’ ”
I told him that dreams did not sig—
nify, and after a bit had him quite
chirped up. I got him some tobacco
for his pipe, saw that he had breakfast,
and as I left him he smiled all over with
happiness, as he said: .
“Only two hours mo’ to Selma! Ize
meas dun got Clerc!”
Thirty minutes later the conductor
beckoned to three or four of us to
come into the smoker. The old man
sat in his chair. leaning against the
side of the car, and seemed to be sleep-
mg.
“He’s been dead ten minutes,” quiet-
ly observed the conductor. “and he
died as peacefully as a child falling
asleep!”
So he had. There was a smile on his
old black face-a smile of anticipa-
tion, and. the pipe had not fallen from
his fingers. Death had come like a
soft and fleeck mantle, and its touch
had been painless—Detroit Free Press.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—I_..atest U. S. Gov’t Report
2.! Powder '
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
--“Isn’t this rather too generous?”
said the clergyman, looking at the $20
gold piece in his hand. “It’s what I
always pay,” loftily replied the Sioux
Falls man who had just been married.
-—Chicago Tribune. .
——An Unbiased Opinion—“Now, pro-
fessor,” said the ambitious young man,
“you have tried my voice, I want you to
tell me frankly what it is best- adapted
to.” And without a. moment’s hesita-
tion the eminent musician responded: .
f‘Whispering.”——Tit-Bits.
-—Learning the Lesson—Hubby—
“When I first got married I determined
to have no large items of expense in
housekeeping, but I find after all that
it is the little things that count.” Batch
—-“How many have you?” Hubby—
“I have four.”——Detroit Free Press.
—“Don’t try to deceive me, Mabel,”
said Mrs. Point Breeze to her daughter,
in 3 Severe tone. “Mr. Bellefield took
a kiss when he left. I heard him.” “Oh,
well, momma, it’s all right,” replied
the girl. “I took it back from him im-
mediately.” — Pittsburgh Chronicle-
Telegraph. ‘
——The member for N orth-Sout-h Blank-
shire—“Gentlemen, you twit me with
havingturned my coat. Years ago I
supported this measure. Then I had
a. reason. But now, gentlemen, I have
lost my reason.” And he wondered at
the deafening smile that pervaded the
meeting—Household Words.
——“I suppose that it. would take a.
great deal of observation and experi-
ence to enable a man to pick the fastest
horse entered for a. race,” she remarked.
“Yes,” replied the man of mournful e.x-.
pericnce, “but that isn’t what you are -,
trying to do. What you want is to pick
the horse that is going to win.”—'Wash-
ington Star.
—Mrs. Watts—“There! We have
cleared off the last of that church debt,
and it never cost yen men a cent. See
what women can do.” Mr. \Vatts—“I
don’t know about the other fellows,
but I know you have made me spend
more than $100 for extra meals down-
town while you were out monkeying
nround.”—Ind'ianapolis Journal.
—History.-—Mr. I‘igg4“VV'liat did you
learn at school to-day ?” Tommy—
“Teacher told us how the cruel Em—
peror Nero used‘to amuse himself when
he was a boy by pulling the legs off the
flies.” Mr. Figg—“Pulled their legs,
did be? What became of him? Did
he become a promoter ?”—Indianapolis
Journal.
. dollars.”
NEWSPAPER WAIFS. ‘
Speaking of Schomburgk. Why not
draw the line at the “k ?”—Minneapolis
Times.
The New Girl.——“Johanna, don’t for-
get to dust the -bric—a—brac." “No,
ma’am. “There do you keep the dust?”
-—Detroit Free Press.
He—“I’m afraid the coming woman
will swear.” She—“Oh, no; she intends
to run things so well there won’t be.
anything to swear at.”——Chicago. Rec— '
0rd.
Murphy—“Finnegan, yez owe~me two
Finnegan—”‘01 know it—but
Oi’m goin’ to kape it as security for the
50 cents yez borrowed from me a. year
ago.”-—Trut.h. '
Pignosed Smith—“Wot do you think
of that there scheme of bein’ able to
photograph a bullet in a man’s body?”
Rubberneck Bill—“Dunno, friend, dun-
no. Wish we had one of them machines
and a Chinaman to try it.”—India.nap—
olis Journal.
At the Opera.—Ducr—“It is almost.
impossible to get seats for the grand
opera, and it is a, rather poor company,
too. I don’t understand it." Duell—
“Well, the singers have such .- weak
voices that they do not disturb the con-
versation.”———IIa-rlem Life.
“Every experience of your life, my.
friend," said the solemn-faced visitor
at the jail, “is for you to make the right
use of it. Utter no complaint. Bear
your punishment in silence. Take
things as you find them.” “I allus do,”
said the dejected vagabond behind the
bars. “That’s how. I got here.”—
Vl’orld’s Comic.
Necessary Preparation.
Little Miss dc Fashion (meeting noted
author in the park)——How-de do, Mr.
l'inemind! Momma. is awful glad you
is coming to her reception. -
Great Author—I am delighted to
learn that she is pleased.
“ch, she says you is the biggest so:
ciety lion of the season, and she’s so
glad she got ahead of that Mrs. Dc
Style. Mamma. has told everybody
you'are comin’, and they is all worked
‘mOst to (both. Mamma’s head aches
awful this morning.
“Um—to what do you refer,
dear?”
“Why, you know, everybody is nearly
killin’ theirselves tryin’ to read your
books, so they can talk to you about
’cm.”—Los Angeles Herald.
my
—Before we passionately desire any-
thing which another enjoys, we should
examine as to the happiness of its pos~
sessor.—Rocl1efoucauld.
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