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(Copyright, 1903, by Daily Story 1’ub. Co.)
THEY had been piloted to the Cosy
Corner by their hostess and left
there. It was not a very well-lighted
nook, but the woman could see a lit
tle amused smile on the man’s face,
and she tapped her foot on the floor,
impatiently.
“Thought to know what that means,”
^aul the man. “That was a danger
s ' signal long ago, and you are not
changed much that I can see. I)o
you want me to find Esther for you?”
“You are not changed much either,
apparently,” she rejoined, with a
touch of spirit. “Your inferences are
as ready—and as wrong, as ever. 1
did not expect to see you here to
night.”
'* “Nor I you—and at a Valentine
party, too.”
“It’s a little surprise of Esther’s,
I suppose. She was always famous
f«r these pleasant little arrange
ments.”
“A very pleasant little arrangement
for me,” he said, politely.
“Thank you, she replied, but with
no particular warmth.
“I hope it isn’t unpleasant for you.
You said that my inference was
wrong, you know.”
“I'm really very glad to see you,”
she answered, with evident sincerity.
“I have often thought of you, and 1
don't think you have a friend to
MB,” HE SAID, REFLECTIVELY.
' whom your success has been n great
er pleasure than it lias to me.”
1 The man’s face lighted up. “That
is really kiptV U* i*-iid.
“But the.'e is a cynical suggestion
in all of the things that you write
that I object to—a1 though I don't
think I should, for I cm rather cyn
ical, too."
“I think that is natural at our
time of life,” he remarked, absent
mindedly.
i She broke into a peal of laughter
In which he joined. “That was a
pretty speech, wasn’t it?” he said.
“But, after all, it’s a very good time
of life. I meant that we had out
grown a few boyish and girlish illu
sions and that 1 should imagine we
both saw clearer. That is sometimes
called cynicism. In other respects,
time haB—well, I don’t know whether
it has improved you, but I certainly
never saw you look more charming.
That is saying a great deal, too. No,
\ I’m not flattering. I think there’s
a touch of gray in your hair.”
“Yours has more than a touch,”
she retorted; "and, what’s worse,
you’re growing bald. There are lit
tle wrinkles around your eyes and—
ilon’t feel badly, Herbert, I think, aft
~r' er’ nil, you are a particularly gnod
lookinr man.”
They both laughed again, and then
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looked at each other until her face
colored slightly and her eyes fell un
der liis cool inspection.
“So you have often thought of
me?” he said, reflectively, after an
awkward pause.
“Look at this couple,” she said,
rather hurriedly. “1 think they want
this corner, poor things!” J
“They can’t have it,,” said the many
sotto voce, “Pass on, young peopl/.
We are sorry for you, but we nt*«
instructed by our hostess to remain
here. I suppose,” lie added, as the
disconsolate pair moved away, “that
those young idiots imagine that they
are in love—valentines.”
“Apparently,” she agreed. “They
think that they have found happi
ness. Yes, valentines. Hearts and
darts and doves and loves and—fid
dlesticks.”
“Madness and moonshine,” the man
supplemented. “Still if they think
they have found happiness, they have
found it, I suppose. Happiness is a
mental condition, isn’t it?”
“It isn’t a condition, it’s a theory,”
she replied.”
“That has been explained,” he said,
with a half-sigh. “1 am sorry if il has
been yours. It is settled then that
love is nonsense, and happiness is—”
“Something we are all hoping for
and never quite getting. Here’s an
other happy pair. I wonder why
Esther encourages this sort of thing!
‘Hoses are red and violets blue; hon
ey is sweet, and so are you.’ ‘Does
oo love oo’s ow.nest own?’ ”
“It is awfully foolish, isn’t it?”
“It seems so to us—at our time of
life.”
They laughed together again, and
ns their eyes met, there was kindness
in their looks.
“It is strange to reflect that at one
time you and I were like these ab
surd creatures,” said the man. “Do
you know I can recollect quite per
fectly my first, valentine to you. A
gorgeous thing in lace papers with a
fubstratum of pink tissue and with
hearts on the corners, and a fat pink
Cupid in the center. Then the
verses—”
“I remember it,” she said, softly.
And with what fears and trembling
I approached your street door and
how L scudded off after 1 had knocked
until I could hide behind a sheltering
post and watch! Then little .Mollie
came out with her browu hair tum
bling over her shoulders—Dainty lit
tle Mollie! Do you remember the
afternoon of that day, Mollie?”
“Don’t!” said the woman, faintly.
“It was all nonsense and idiocy,
then and thereafter, wasn’t it?”
“Of course it was,” she answered,
with an effort at lightness. “We were
silly young people, and now we are
sensible, middle-aged people.”
“There was another time I sent a
valentine—some years alter that,” lie
pursued. "It was a more modern af
fair—without the Cupids, but with
some maudlin verse of—”
“Don't call it that,” she broke in,
sharply, “you haven’t any right to—
I beg wojir pardon; ouly I didn't
think it was maudlin then.”
“That was because we were silly
young people, and not sensible and
middle-aged. Don’t go yet, please.
After 12 years absence, you might
let me talk to you for live minutes.”
This time there were tears on her
lashes, as she turned and looked at
him.
“1 only wanted to speak of one
other Valentine day, when I brought
a little gift, which 1 notice is still
let me see your hand, Mollie. Yes,
it’s still there. Why did you wear
1 the little ring to-night, Mollie?”
“I have always worn it. Halbert,"
she said, brokenly. “Do, please, let me
go to Esther. I did not know you were
coming, indeed. If I had guessed it I
would never have coiue.”
"Mollie, is it possible that you still
care for me?” he asked. “If it is 1 am
the happiest man alive, for I have
never stopped loving you, dearest.
We won’t care now who was right or
who was wrong. Oh, my little Valen
tine of years gone by, I am lonely for
you!"
“ ‘If yon love me as I love you, no—w
Hulbert!”she cried. **I storied to you.
I knew that you were coming.”
WHO SMILES IN THE RAIN.
The coward may smtie
When there's sun all.the while—
It's braver to smile in the rain.
Tl;e weakest may joy
Whtn there's naught to annoy—
He's strongef who smiles through his
pain.
And then when there's sun, w hen there’s
bird-song and brtese.
When Gloom's put to rout and Discour
agement ilees.
What need has the world
Of the mouth corners curled
In the cheeriest smiles, when the fields and
trees
Are smiling so broadly that nobody sees
The wee bit of brightness you're giving
the while—
But days when it's rainy there’s need for
your smile.
The,weakling may smile
When there's brightness the while—
ftJs better to smile when there’s rain.
*The gloomster may Joy
When there's naught to annoy—
He's brave who can laugh through his
pain.
When all the wide world is so full of song
That birds sing and brooklets go warbling
along,
With hearts lig.it as chaff
All the earth seems to laugh—
The sunny-day courage says n-ot you are
strong,
Though hearty good cheer one could never
call wrong—
But, oh, when the day Is all haggard and
gray
And Nature weeps gloomily, sobbing
away
Then laugh in the hope of the sweet after
while;
On days when it’s rainy there's need for
your smile.
—S. W. Gtllilan, in Baltimore American.
Fifteen hundred people were found
to Ijiave blown in their money on a
matrimonial bureau in St. Lottie.
' There must be a few other schemes
•;1 that, haven’t yet been bit on by the
:I- confiding.
nut
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DYE THEIR OWN PRODUCT.
Silkworms of Various Shades Dev els
oped by Recent Experiments
In France.
The following report is made by
United States Consul Atwell at Rou
buix: Messrs. Conte and Lev rat hove
recently been making experiments
with silkworms, which have resulted,
it is said, in the production of co
coons of varied shades, reports the
Philadelphia Record.
The ordinary cocoon is white, yel
low. or sometimes green. The ques
tion to Ik1 solved is why different
colors should be produced by similar
species, and whether it is the direct
result of the food taken by the worm.
If tliis coloring matter comes from
the leaves fed to the worms, Messrs.
Conte and Levrat considered that it
should be easy to color their food
artificially and thus secure different
shades of cocoons, though several
naturalists have attempted to prove
the impossibility of coloring matter
passing from the intestines of the
worm into the silk-producing glantls.
The worms which served for their
experiments were placed on branches
of privet, washed over with red.
They ate the leaves without prejudice,
and when the larvae began to spin
the cocoon the silk was a bright red.
When fed on leaves colored blue, the
silk worms produced a slightly bluish
silk. The species that produces or
dinarily a yellow cocoon, when fed
upon leaves colored red, brings forth
a deep orange. The original yellow,
it is said, is due to the pigment in
the leaves of the mulberry.
usson in American Historu in Puzzle"
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CONFEDERATES BEHIND THE ROBINSON HOISE AT BILL RUN.
Find Gen, lice.
An incident n the confederate side at Bull Run that came near rivaling
in point of disaster the historic final rout of the federal army, was 1he
confusion that resulted when the brigade of Gen. Bee was routed by the
superior numbers of the federal force opposing him. The fight at this point
was not decisive until the federal line was reinforced, when the confeder
ates were sent in confusion to the rear. Every effort was made to stop the
lout, but it was not until Gen. Bee called attention to the steady line of
Gen. Jackson’s troops by saying “there they stand like a stone wall.” from
which (ien. Jackson derived the name of Stonewall Jackson, that the men
obeyed the order to form on the colors, and were soon again advancing to
meet the enemy from behind the Robinson house, where the incident h id
occurred.
BRITAIN’S ORDER OF MERIT.
OriK'in of the Victoria Crons, fh.elEngr
lisli Soldier's Most Coveted
Prise.
Thursday. January 29, is the anni
versary of the institution of the sol
dier's most precious decoration—per
haps the most precious decoration in
the world—-the Victoria cross, for it
was instituted by her majesty, the late
Queeu Victoria, on the 29th day of
January, 185G, and so is not quite 50
t ears old. While it is the most prized
of all the decorations and orders an
Englishman can win, it is also the most
democratic decoration in the world,
for. although it is the official badge
of an act of personal courage and dar
ing, it has no concern with rank, long
service or wounds, and it may be worn
by one ’who lias been only a few
months or even weeks in the army,
while others who have spent their lives
in the service and gained rank and
o-ther decorations may not possess it,
says St. James Gazette. It may be
worn by a private soldier or a field
marshal, and on the roll of the heroes’
names are to be found almost every
rank in both the services, for the
winning of the cross is possible to any
one, as it was granted “as a reward
for conspicuous bravery or devotion
to the country in the presence of the
enemy,” or as the inscription upon
it records, “For Valor!”
The Victoria cross had its birth dur
ing the Crimean war, when Queen Vic
toria felt that some recognition of the
personal daring and heroism of her
soldiers in that terrible struggle was
needed, l'lie royal warrant clearly
lay down the conditions* under which
the cross mav be won. but the whole
of them may be summarized in the one
sentence, “For conspicuous bravery or
devotion to the country in the pres
ence of the enemy.”
There are not many who are un
familiar with the appearance of the
cross, but for the benefit of those who
have only seen it in photographs or
pictures, it may be said that it is about
an inch and a half wide and lias in the
obverse center a crowned lion, under
neath which is an escroll bearing the
words, “For Valor.” It is attached
to a bar on which is a spray of laurel
leaves and is suspended by a broad
ribbon, which is blue for the naval
service and dark red for the military.
Both the cross and the bar are made
from bronze which formerly formed
part of some of the Russian guns cap
tured during the Crimean war and
complete with the ribbon and pin
weighs just under an ounce, or 432
grains, to be exact. It is engraved with
the name and regiment of the recipi
ent. as well as the date on which lie
won it and as soon as this is done it
is dispatched from the makers to the
sovereign to bestow upon the hero.
It is strange to have to record that
the first Victoria cross was won by a
sailor for it has come to be looked
upon as almost entirely a military
decoration, yet such is the ease-—and
it is still stranger that the deed which
gained it was performed a year and
seven mouths prior to the institution
of the decoration. Another feature
is that at the time of winning it he
was a boy serving his time as a mid
shipman on board H. M. 8. Heela, nnd
the story of how Charles Davis Lucas,
now an admiral, won the cross as a
middy will always form one of the
most glorious stories among the many
in its history. It was at the bombard
ment of Bouiarsund, in the Baltic, on
June 21, 1854, that a live shell dropped
in the midst of a group of men of
whom young Lucas was in command.
The fuse was almost burned away,
anil an explosion seemed imminent,
but without a moment’s hesitation the
young midshipman sprang forward,
grasped the spluttering shell in his
hands and, rushing to the side of the
vessel, hurled it overboard, where it
exploded before it reached the water.
Such an act as this displays the sub
limest courage, for it combines intelli
gence and instantaneous action, and
in a boy it was especially meritorious,
and so young Lucas was chosen ns the
first recipient of the decoration 18
months afterward. The winning of
a cross, it may be explained, carries
with it an annuity of £10, which may
be increased to £50, payable quarter
ly, to all excepting commissioned offi
cers, but including those who have
risen from the ranks, while for each
clasp an extra annuity of £5 is award
ed.
A CITY HUNTER’S LESSON.
Met with Something of n Surprise
While Out in the Woods Stalk
ing for Deer.
“I’ve been a deer hunter all my life
and a guide in the Wisconsin woods for
a quarter of a century, but 1 never took
advantage of one of the animals,” said
old Abe Glennon, who came down from
the pine forests recently for a short
stay in Chicago, reports the Chron
icle. “I always give a deer a chance
for his life, and I won't steer a party
that wants to go on a slaughtering ex
pedition.
“Last November a Chicago party
came up to my lodge to hunt deer for a
week. They were all good sportsmen,
but one fellow, and he had never been
out of the city before, or acted as if he
hadn’t. After we had hunted one day
and failed to bring down a buck or a
doe, this fellow, who had heard a few
hunting stories, wanted to go stalking
with a bull’s-eye. I told him 1
wouldn’t stand for anything like
that, but be was anxious, and we
.. .1.1 1_ T_ j. _ _ 1 1
iwm nun iu gvt auruu.
“The other members of the party
knew he was going, and they asked me
if there was any way of playing a trick
on the new hunter. 1 told them to
take a piece of stovepipe and put two
lighted candies in it. They did so, and
we took it out into the bush and fas
tened it between the forks of a sapling.
When I got back to the lodge I told
the fellow where to go to find a big
buck at night. He took his repeating
rifle and the bull’s eye lantern and dis
appeared in the night, but not until I
had told him to fire a little below the
two lights, which he would know were
the deer’s eyes.
“About half an hour later I heard the
cracking of a rifle and the other men
laughed and said the stalker had got
his bull’s-eye at work. Before they
had finished the sentence the rifle
cracked again. Then came a dozen
shots in rapid succession. As soon as
the man could load the rifle the rattling
fire was resumed. He kept this up
until all his ammunition was gone. A
few minutes after the firing ceased
he came running at break-neck speed
to the lodge. He was scared half to
death, and his breath came in gasps.
“‘Did you get one?’ chorused the
party.
“ ‘There’s a whopping big buck or
something out there in the brush,’ the
fellow said, between gasps, ‘but I
couldn’t touch him. 1 don’t know how
many times I shot at him, and 1
didn't—*
“ ‘Maybe it’s the ghost of a deer, old
man Ames sneaked up on and killed.
Lots of stalkers have seen it at night,’
I said.
The fellow never said a word more.
ITe put out the light in the bull’s eye,
stood his rifle up in the corner, and
went to bed. That's the only way to
treat a man who goes stalking deer
with a bull's eye. It’s murder, that’s’
what it is, and I’ve never been guilty
of it.’’
A Wealthy Swt»« Town.
Within 15 years the wealth of Base]
Inis increased $00,000,000 and the pop
ulation lias almost doubled, which is
i most remarkable showing for a
town that is 1,000 years old.—Albany
Argils.
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