‘. is he TIM ; To Subscribe for the Both Papers Sent to one Addggflgs for $I.OO a Year“ _ it.’ HOW SUsAN WAS WON Susan Stebbens was by all odds the '. best looking girl on Grassy Lick, with- out being remarkably beautiful, for beauty is not a noticeable characteristic of mountain women, old or young, and how she had ever come to marry Lem Skaggs was a wonder to me, for Lem was by all odds the homeliest man on the Lick, and homeliness is a character- istic of mountain men. I knew Lem quite well and had be- friended him on many occasions, even loaning him money enough to get mar- lied on, as his crops were not in and he was scant of funds, and when they had been married about a month I asked him one day how it happened. He was a good man all over, was Lem, as-guile- less as a baby and as honest as the sun? light, and when I asked my question he blushed and grinned. “ShevVas tuck by my good lucks,” he lau hed. “ idn’t you court her pretty hard?” “Did I?” and he drew a long breath as of relief at the though of its being over. “Well, I should say I did. Why, I come mighty nigh mortgidgin’ the farm to git her things she didn’t seem to care for when I give ’em to her.” “What did you give her?” “Everything, Colonel. It got so bad to’rds the last the folks at the store told me ef I’d lump my dealin’s they reckon- ed they could let me have ’em at whole- sale prices.” “She couldn’t stand your liberality, Lem. That’s what got her.” “Not a bit uv it,” he contended. “All the time I was takin’ her all sorts uv things, she wuz makin’ eyes at every fel- ler that come along, and sorter expectin’ me to keep up my and uv the swingle tree, jist caze I kinder seemed to hanker atter doin’ it that a-way.” “But you kept at it?” “I reckon not,” he laughed. “All uv a sudden I sot in for Mary Finnel, and gave the store folks a rest on buyin' things.” _ “Then what happened?” I__ inquired. with a' hope of gaining some more in- formation. - He laughed a low, gurgling laugh, such as a boy would give vent to when caught in some of his natural depreda- tions. “Well, he said, “she kinder swapped eends on t’other tellers, and swung around my way, but I wuzn’t givin’ a ' inch, and I didn’t have no talk with her fer mighty nigh two weeks, and then one evenin’ as I was passin’ her house on " my way to Mary’s and she knowed it, I seen her hangin’ on the gate lookin’ out ' into the future er somethin’ uv that sort that I seen a picter uv onc’t, an agent ‘ wuz sellin’.” “ ‘Good evenin’,’ says I, not offering to stop. ‘ “ ‘Good evenin’,’ says she. me you’re in a terrible hurry.’ “ ‘Kinder,’ says I, slakin’ up some. ‘I promised to be down to Mary’s ’bout this time.’ . . “She kinder looked down at the ground when I told her that, and kicked a little rock out of the path that wuz layin’ that and I felt like a sheep stealin’ dog for sayin’ what I had.” “ ‘I reckon you’d better be hurrin’ along then, fer Mary ain’t the kind that likes to be kept waitin’,’ said she. “ ‘I s’pose,’ said'I, ‘that you don’t keel of I stop and talk to you fer a minute. do you?’ “ ‘I ain’t keerin’ what you do,’ said she, kinder sullen. “ ‘You look like you wuz expectin’ samebody yerself,’ says I, feelin’ ez of I’d like to choke whoever the feller wuz. “ ‘That’s what,’ said she, and I felt more’n ever like chokin somebody. “ ‘Who is it?’ says I, watchin’ the streaks uv a laugh ’round her mouth andeyes. . "“ ‘That’s fer me to know and you to find out,’ said she laughin’ right out. “ ‘I reckon I’ll be goin’ on down to Mary’s,’ says I, thinkin’ that I wuzn’t makin’ nothin’ hang'm’ around Susan. I “ ‘Mebbe you wouldn’t ef you know’d who wuz comin’,’ said she, kinder reach- in’ over the gate. “ ‘Well, tell me,’ says I, “and see ef I stay." “ ‘I reckon not,’ said she, still a-nag- gin me, ‘mebbee they wouldn’t like it!’ “ ‘Who’s they,’ says I. “She gave a little chuckle, and I come up to the gate and rested my hands on it to one side uv her’s. “ ‘Pap- and mother,’ says she. ‘They’ve gone down to the schoolhouse to preach- in’ and won’t be back till about eight o’clock.’ “ ‘Ain’t you kinder lonesome waitin’ hyer by yerself, Susan?’ says 1, half way tryin’ to pull the gate open, but she held it shot. , , . “ ‘I reckon I wuz,’ says she. ‘That’u why Icame out and Lhung on the gate. It’s mighty'still like in the house.’ “ ‘Yon reckon you wuz?’ says I. ‘Ain’t you, now?’ and I chuckled myself for ketchin’ her. “ ‘P’r‘aps I am and p’r'aps I ain’t,’ she sniggered, and tossed her head. “I tried to open the gate but she held it shet. ” - “Ef you don’t want me to stay, why don’t you say so,’ 'gettin‘ ugly. ‘ “ ‘I reckon you kin, ef you want to,’ says she, mighty pesky. “ ‘Susan,’ says I, ‘what’s the use 111 foolin’?’ “ ‘Foolin’ about what?’ says she. “ ‘About me and you,’ says I. “ ‘_I ain’t a-foolin’ says she. " ‘You air.’ says -I, ‘and you know "Pears to “ 'Ef you don’t like me, Lem,Skaggs,’ says she, brindlin’ up all over, ‘you kin go along. I didn’t ax you to stop, did “ ‘But I do like you, Susan,’ says I, gittin’ skeert, and trying to pull the gafl open so’s I could'git clos‘t enough tohel to coax her. - “ ‘I reckon you like Mary Fine] a sight better,’ says she, holdin’ the gate ag’in me. ‘ “ ‘I reckon I don't,’ says I, and I could ‘feel the gate give a little. , , - “ ‘You wouldn’t talk that a-way of she wuz in hearin’ distanc‘e,’ says she. “' ‘Wouldn‘t I?’ says I, and I heaved ' and sot on the gate, but it didn’tmove a peg. ' ‘You jist fetch her up here and see ef I wouldn’t.’ ' “ ‘N 0, you jist go down thar.’ says she, ‘that’s whar you started fer.’ “ ‘I didn’t do nothin’ uv the sort,’ says I, gittin’ .despriter every minute. “ ‘You told me you did,’ says she, and I could feel the gate give some and then shot up ag’in. “ ‘Yon oughter know, .Susan,’ says I serious, ‘thatI wuz jist a-foolin’, and I could feel the gate a-givin’ way and shettin’ and then giving way ag’in. g “ ‘An’ you ain’t lyin’ now, Lem?’ says she, a heap sight softer than anytime in her life. “Course I ain’t, Susan,’ says I; and the gate came open about six inches. “ ‘Ef I only thought you wuzn’t. Lem,’ says she, lettin’ the gate slip my way a lettle more every minute. “ ‘You know I ain’t, Susan,’ says I, givin’ the gate the strongest pull yit. ‘You know it, and you know I never give a snap uv my finger for any other gal in these parts, and that all the time I’ve been a hankerin’ atter you and wantin’ you fer my wife, but you kep’ foolin’ with me all along and bustin’ my heart mighty nigh, and makin’ me want to go off and chop a tree down on my- self. You know it Susan. you know it,’ and she h’isten her hands and the gate swung wide open, . _ " ‘What about Marylw says she, stand- thar before me lookin’ sweeter’n peaches and rosies. . “ ‘Dern Mary,’ says I, clean forgittin’ my manners, and I_ retch out both my hands fer Susan. - “ ‘Oh, Lem!’ said she, and—well Col- and,” he laughed as his honest face red- dened beneath its saffron hue. “I reck- on you’re old enough to know the bal- ance.” “I wouldn’t be surprised, Lem,” I re- plied, blushing just a shade myself as a memory or two came slowly back from the rosy past. He looked up smiling. “And say, Colonel,” he said,“I wuzn’t any prettier that night than I wuz be- fore.” “Come off, Lemuel," said I slapping him on the back, “it was so dark Susan couldn’t see you.”—New York Sun. BIGGEST LENS IN THE WORLD. The Great Glass of the Yerkes Telescope Is Larger than the Llck. We are likely during the coming sum- mer to learn more about Mars than as- tronomers during the history of their science have discovered up to the pres- ent time about that planet and its peo- ple. , It required the 28-inch, telescope of the United States Naval Observatory to dis- cover the satellites of Mars. . Then the Lick telescope, with its 86 inch glass, was built, and. immediately the three strange signal lights on Mars was dis- covered. Now the great 40-inch lens—the hugest telescope glass ever made—which Alvan E. Clark has been working on for more than a year at Cambridge, Mass., for the Yerkes telescope, is completed and will soon be shipped to its destina- tion. The big telescope at the Naval Obser- vatory had been unable to bring out the signal light of Mars, as the telescopes before that time had failed to note the satellities, and the Yerkes telescope will be so much bigger than the Lick, now the largest in the world, that astrono- mers are confident astonishing discover- ies may be made as soon as it is set up. . . Who knows but that looking through the great 40-inch glass of this huge in- strument, astonomers will be enabled to make out definitely the system of sig- nals which the Martians are believed to be using in an effort to commuicate with the inhabitants of Earth?. Even the great canal system of Mars, as is suspected by more than one, may turn out to be a gigantic semaphore. How She Keeps Her Freshness. Until the physiological principles which account for the phenomenon are understood, it must remain a puzzling fact that an actress’s life should be more favorable to the preservation of good looks, and even of girlish freshness, ' than the life led by women who occupy their natural sphere, and who cultivate —as they think—all the physical and moral virtues. A successful actress must work ex- tremely hard, generally by artificial light and in a gas-befouled atmosphere. Her hours for work, meals. and sleep are all utterly bad from the hygienic point of view, and not infrequently she makes bad worse by falling into those bohemian habits which are an immemo- rial tradition of her class. Her secret, apart from the laws regulatingthe ex— pression and nutrition of the face, con- sists chiefly of. avoidance of monotony and petty worries—those arch-enemies of feminine good looks and good tem- per. Her work, if arduous, is generally performed both with earnestness and lightness of heart; and, above all, she gets a sufficiency of bodily exercise of the kind—although not unler the con- ditions—most conducive to health, viz., exercise involving quick and general movements of the muscles, combined with a certain amount of mental ex- citement.-—Blackwood’s Magazine. Killed His Man. I once asked a friend who had fought all through the war if he had ever killed a man that he‘positively knew of. “Yes,” said he, remorsefully, “at Bull Run I ran at the first fire. A rebel chased me for ten miles and was then so exhausted that he dropped dead.” Gladstone now finds the theater—his constant solace for many years—too much for him except as a rare indulg- ence. 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