% r i 1?!|V She «ai !i' fleeing strand I. - y ‘to’.Hit Liking.,"7 fflie ha^ aided ,ln the tnldBam- In his tthlveniity days Blsssarck w as He|Was a Crudly and Hlaleyo- " i i Be Good merl; Shp' looked a i; the" fantastic fig Bold Swindles Perpetrated by as Jolly and boisterous as the least Three o r : ure perched-^on^a shock of com, and promising youth of hitr geUeratibn. ^ - ^tiy Maligned Frenchman. • £it&igh For a Husband. her Ups parted in a joyous laOgh. ^ Use of the Wire. ilieswho will penhit us to cording to the authoc of “The tti ■j* ■ “It Is you—you have come back?” For Russtoj^^he enjoyed dancinit and place one of our new pianoe^ she asked. singing bett^ than sfo^y and was-M NOT A MURDEROUS MONSTER. n By CLARISSA MACKIE. The scarecrow man grinned happily. THE WAY A BANK WAS FOOLED full of fun-^aa his cbmsen companion on storage [Copyright, 1909, by ABSoclated Literary “I came back for my clothes,” he ad Coun^Keyserllng. was deflclent .ln it, PresB.] mitted. Absolutely free of Cost A Lot of Nerve and a Little Telegram and on this dlfference-ln temperament He Had Matrimonial Miafertunea, It , . OUda walked down the green aisle Allda flushed under the brown of her hangs a tale. la True, but He Baama to Have Been 4)f waving corn. The long green cheek. “They are In the house. I told That Waa Properly Delivered by One One day the shy and reserved Key- as we are short of space in. J; leaves flickered high over her sunny mother about you. We have been ex of the Company’s Messenger Boys the Only One Who Came to Grief on serllng came to Bismarck in great a b Account of Them—Hie Tragic End. our warerooms. L head, and the sound of the wind pecting you to come back.” Made a Winning Combination. lation. ■ sweeping through the ten acre com- “I am glad of that,” he said simply. Ninety-nine men out of a hundred “What is the matter?’ demanded Bis The supposedly detestable Bluebeard, Bfleld was like the roaring swell of the “You saw the papers after I escaped? marck. _ i the monster of murderous polygamy, ™locean in her ears. You know that I spoke the truth to will accept as gospel truth the contents of a telegi'am when it comes from the “My mother writes that an aunt and the very name of the ogre Into whose The Hartford JSow and then she tore a plump ear you that day. They captured the real two cousins are coming fo? a week to Wfrom the juicy stalks and thrust it in criminal.” He regarded her steadily hands of a messenger boy. They buy mouth one used, if one could, In child Berlin, and, as they are very young hood’s happy hour, to throw India rub " her splint basket. She did this leisure “I read all about it, and we were uud sell, pay out large sums of money, and inexperienced, I must go about ber balls, was In truth a man who has ly, for it was yet early morning, and very glad.” start on long journeys and do countless everywhere with them, offering them Piano & Music Go. there were hours before dinner, and “Thank you. And I hope you were been as cruelly and malevolently ma other things upon the suggestion of the all sorts of amusements. It is most ligned by history as Nero, Richard III., 686 Main Street, Hartford, Gt. she loved to walk in the corn. not annoyed that day you met the con little yellow or white paper slips with annoying.” groaned Keyserling, “as 1 The rustle of the leaves drowned all stable and his men.” He was standing Macbeth, tutti quanti. So says M. INQUIRE OF their condensed messages without in have to prepare myself for examina Anatole France—and pray who can i other sounds, and thus it was that she beside her, looking down at her sweet tions and have no time for pretty coun came suddenly upon a man crouching face with a certain earnestness in his the least questioning their authenticity. speak with higher authority on the This is an interesting fact, upon which try cousins.” real facts of faery?—in “Les Sept E. T. Ferris, Local Agent ^ n the ground before her. As her pink own that had never been there before. Bismarck saw his chance and imme ^ k lrts came into his range of vision he “Yes; I met them and told them hinges an enormous amount of the Femmes de la Barbe-Bleue et Autres diately inquired: Contes MerveiUeux.” One knew al leaped to his feet and stood, half turn- had seen one man and that he looked country’s business, and it is also a fact ‘Have you ever seen these young jed for flight. like a scarecrow.” She laughed and upon which hinge some of the clever ready that Charles Perrault first wrote. girls? .Have they ever s^n you?” In about 166(1, the historical biography TRUTH-TELLING I The girl grew white with sudden added mischievously, “The constable est and boldest frauds in criminal rec “Never in my life.” kfear and in her turn made as if to run said that couldn’t be^the man because of Bluebeard, but one did not know ords. “Capital!' Nothing could be better. until now how deeply Perrault. prob Twenty-one years of 'strict adherence tea- Mray. The man’s face lost its strained he was looking for a dude.” A lot of nerve and a little telegram Let me be Count Keyserling for the ntepslty and relaxed for an instant. They laughed in unison as the stran ably through false information, wrbng- facts and thorough work enable was a combination that made possible time being, and you become simple ed the memory of an excellent and ill Jhe saw that he was young and good ger picked up a suit case and prepared a smooth swindle on a Des Moines Bismarck. You stay at home, and I booking and that he was afraid of to follow Alida toward the farmhouse, treated personage. From M. France bank. A weli^iJressed man, apparently shall become a first class cicerone dur we learn that M. Bernard de Montra- l^mething. When they were in sight of the com a business man of large affairs, called ing all the time of their visit." H u n ts in g ^ “What do you want? Why are you fortable dw’elling the man stopped and gonx, of old and noble descent, lived at the paying teller’s window with a Keyserling eagerly accepted the prop in 1650 or thereabouts at the ancestral "'usines&Sm ^iA*. [here?” looked wistfully at the girl beside him draft or check on an Omaha bank and osition. When the , young ladies ar “They’re after me,” he said grimly, Do you know, I rather hate to pdrt Chateau Les Guillettes, on his estates asked if the Omaha bank had tele rived, Bismarck met them as Keyser between Compiegne and Plerrefonds, f," "Who?” with these ‘scarecrow garments.’ They graphed notice that the draft was ling and placed himself at their dis to secure employment for E V E R Y W O R T H Y v“The cohstables.” have served me more than one good The castle, of frowning outward as good. He got “no” for an answer and position during their stay in Berlin. pect, was Inside a treasure house of GRADUATE. “What have you done?” She di5l not turn.” then informed the teller that such a Keyserling buried himself In his books taste and wealth. Its owner, contrary INDIVIDUALITY IN TEACHING. Bhrink away from him as he expected “More than one?” repeated Alida, fal telegram might be expected at any and thought no more about it until the to long existing tradition, wore no Pupils are urged along as fast as they can d« light do. tering. moment. Soon afterward the telegram girls had gone home to the Baltic lothing at all—if you will believe “More than one,” with an enigmatic beard, only a mustache and a little the work thoroughly. arrived, delivered by a messenger boy, provinces. tuft below the lower lip. He was j! The Laurelton railroad station smile. “So with your permission I shall appearing to have come from the Oma A week or two later he was discon Money spent for instruction at this sdhool (liras' robbed lust night, and it seemed carry them away wdth me, that once in known through the countryside as will come back many times over in salary. ha bank and authorizing the Des certed by receiving a letter from home Bluebeard because his hair was verj pessary to arrest some one on sus- awhile I may come back and play the Moines bank to pay the draft. When In which his mother expressed her TEN SUPERIOR TEACHERS help the jclon. As a matter of fact, I’m one scarecrow as I did this morning.” black, and therefore his close shaven the. stranger appeared again he was great delight in hearing from the cheeks and chin were markedly blue pupils, when, where and as they need help. W the faculty of the Moreton school, “We shall not need a scarecrow until given the $500. When the Des Moines young ladies and their mother how Im Huntsinger’s attendance is over three Ind I’m taking a walking tour through next May, when the com is up, but He was a fine figure of a man who. bank people took up the matter by mensely they had enjoyed themselves In spite of his manifest advantages as times as large as that of any other business [lew England. you might come and practice.” wire with the Omaha bank it found and bow very agreeable and kind their a good match, did not get on well with school in Hartford. “I submitted to arrest, but on my And so it happened that when the that the latter institution had not sent cousin had been. women of his own rank in life. This New pupils enter every day. to the lockup my gorge rose at following August came and the rustling the telegram, and then it was discov “I am overjoyed,” continued the fond i)ijB thought of the unnecessary igno com formed arching green alleys Alida was due to an incurable shyness on his ered that the whole transaction was a parent, “to hear from their description part. Pleasant and pretty girls who E. M. HUNTSINGER,’ Principal. toy to be thrust upon me, so I broke and the scarecrow man walked togeth fraud. that you have grown quite stout and had been well brought up attracted 30 Asylum St., Hartford, Conn. m " er in the cornfield. But how could the sw'indlere send a robust during your stay, at Berlin.” him immensely, but also filled him “And you do not object to having a Four Doors West oL Main Street. telegram from Omaha bearing the with an indescribable terror. scarecrow for a husband?” he was say bank’s name? They did it in this ing tenderly, her hand lost in his grasp. manner; An accomplice of the Des A COOK’S CREST. The first notable result of this af “No, Indeed!” blushed Alida happUy. fliction was that the unfortunate or FOUNDED 1792. Moines man stepped to a telephone phan, for such he had been since his booth in Omaha and called the tele The Decoration Worn by a Pompous 117th ANNUAL STATEMENT OP Persian Chef. early youth, incapable of making pro Chairs. graph oflflce. “This is th e ---- bank,” posals for the hand of any of the at Carlyle wins glory still with his re he said. “Send a messenger at once A quaint story from Persia is given Insurance Company in a book by Mr. James. The author tractive and high born ladles in the flections about clothes. Why has the to get a telegram for Des Moines.' neighborhood, married a certain Co chair never tempted essayists to rival Then this accomplice hurried to the had missed from his saddle the brass plate inscribed with the maker’s name, lette Passage, a fascinating girl In her of North America “Sartor Resartus?” It, too, may reflect entrance of the Omaha bank to meet way, against whose character nothing authority. It, too, changes with salary the messenger and there handed him Souter, and was wrath at his loss, since the name went for much in the seems known, who was going round OF PHILADELPiUk PA. and station. The swivel gives orders the message for Des Moines. The "the country witj^ a dancing be^. to the high desk stool. The straight telegraph company bad no reason to judgment of the east. back chair of the stenogtoP^®!’ differs believe Otherwise than that the be w « i
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______tie w inbei^, of state and the electric chair of exe their fraud so that they got out 01 .imed hoy carrying his duift ______Second cution. The empty chair Is a meta ,^'he Persian bowed to me with g r^ t cape by way of a'f^iri that had a door T. HOUAKD WRIGHT. ^ ------reach of the law on trains that left leading to what had been water HENRY W. FARNUM, - - Aast. SecreteHrjr phor for all that is most tragic In onr Immediately after their game had been civility and passed into an inner apart JOHN O. PLATT, - - Aflst Secretwr ment. As both man and boy bore meadows, and so to open country. lives. What are the dreams of the art worked. Perrault called this room “le petit cab *T THOUGHT TOIT mGHT TAKB IT DOWN ist’s stool and what of the milkmaid’s In two smaller western towns a sim burnished gilt crests upon their tall GEO. F. RICH AGENCY, Agents AND PTJT ON THK CLOTHES.” and which^slgnify the more? How the astrakhan hats I took them to be pub inet,” but it was also known as “the i. ilar game was worked, only for seven wretched princesses’ room,” because away and lost myself In this field. I rocking chair has been written about or eight times the amount. An alleged lic functionaries of no small Impor Office, Corner Main and Park Sts., tance. a Florentine painter had covered iti SOUTH MANCHESTER, CONN. suppose they vrtll get me in the end, and despised by the haughty traveler horse buyer appeared In one of the walls with the most lifelike figures of fdr I am dog tired now.” from abroad and how firm it stands, a towns and made purchase of a carload “ ‘Who was that, Hassan All? 1 ask ed. ‘I do not remember having seen Circe, Niobe a^id Procris. The tragic She lifted her troubled eyes to his great American conquest in domestic of fine animals to be delivered and effect of these paintings was enhanced and read truth in their steady brown comfort! Around the chair also and paid for at a later day, preceding him before, yet evidently he recog nized me.’ by the porphyry flooring of the room, COAL! COAL! S -,4 depths. the attitude in which we sit He associ which be made the acquaintance of the which suggested bloodstains. Something black oame into view ations of mental state: officers of one of the banks. On the “ ‘That’ said my friend, with his smaU, beady eyes twinkling, ‘is your Montragoux appeared Inconsolable among the stalks and then disap The editor sat in his sanctum, his counte day fixed for the delivery of the horses at the disappearance, which was com peared. For an instant she sta rt^ nance furrow,ed with care. the alleged buyer deposited in the cook—yes!’ WAGOKS. HARNESS His mind at the bottom of business, his “ ‘My cook!’ I answered in astonish plete, of Colette, his first wife, and and then laughed. Involuntarily the feet at the top of a chair. bank a draft for a large amount drawn doubtless hfs lot would have been far stranger’s face relaxed Into a smile. on a hank in another town a hundred ment ‘I took him to be at least the When does thought come best from governor’s chief of staff.’ less unhappy if he had never tried to ES AlfD HORSE GOODS “They will trace you by your clothes seat of ease and when from the se miles away. At the same time the console himself. This, most unfor —your appearance?” she asked quickly. bank received a telegram purportbig “ ‘‘Well, he is your chief of staff, verer bench on which the schoolboy of which to him seems a higher degree- tunately, he did l)y marrying one He glanced down at his plain gray old was wont to sit? You get the Idea. to come from the distant bank author Jeanne de la Cloche, who turned out UAS0N,S SU?FLIES. clothes and nodded assent.’ izing the payment of this draft. The yes!’ And Hassan All smiled his in Now go ahead with the immortal es imitable smile. 10 be a violent dipsomaniac. Blue Wood Pulp, 5Cc per bag, $11.50 “Come with me.” She led the way say. All you need are concentrated bank believed the telegram, paid out beard was of a nature so kindly and through the corn, and he followed her, the money and then discovered that “ ‘But what in the name of good con per ton at Storehouse. thought and literary genius.—Collier’s. science is the impertinence that he noble that, although in a fit of mad starting back with a muttered ejacula the telegram was fraudulent. It had passion she nearly killed him with a tion as a black coat sleeve came into not been sent by the second bank, but wears upon his hat? Telephone orders promptly attended to Queer Pdetofficet. “ ‘That must be your crest It is a kitchen knife, he continually hoped to view. by a confederate of the alleged horse reclaim her by kindness. But one day Odd means of collection of mall In buyer. Later developments disclosed badge of yours!’ “It’s nothing—it’s only one of the various regions are still in vogue. At she strayed into the generally shut up scarecrows in the corn,” she reassured that this accomplice had called up the “ ‘On my honor, Hassan Ali, you G. H. ALLEN. Fulness, a little Island off the coast of must not make fun of me! I have princesses’ room, took the painted fig him. “I thought you might take it telegraph office In the distant town by ures for real people and was so terri down and put on the clothes—they’re England, there is set up what the Brit telephone. “This is ----, cashi^ of the given the man no crest and I have ish call “a pillar box,” from which col never set eyes on him before P fied that she rushed wildly Into the black—and the hat is different. They’re ----bank,” he said. “Please send this open fields, tumbled into a deep pool, lections of mail can be made only telegram for me.” Then he gave the “ ‘I have seen the badge!’ Hassan all clean. You see, they’ve been out when the tide shall permit, a notice to and so was drowned. in the rain and” — She hesitated. message authorizing the flyst bank to Ali continued. ‘It Is undoubtedly your which effect is posted above the box. own. It has the motto “Souter,” which So things went on, a new affiictlon “That’s a glorious idea of yours,” he pay the bogus draft, and this message with each new wife, and In each case Whitehall Portland Cement, This result of the “necessity of inven the telegraph company sent without is doubfless the old heraldic contrac Rosendale Cement, said gratefully. He pulled the man of tion” came about by reason of the fact the final catastrophe was associated straw from the post and tore away suspecting that it was fraudulent. tion for the word souteneur, and also Lime, Pulp Plaster, that the place in question is reached the subtitle, “By royal appointment” with the princesses’ room. The climax the tattered garments. by road from the town of Wakering Some years ago an eastern man was to the unhappy career of the more Rutland Wall Plaster, “Now”— he said, but she had rustled Induced to Invest in worthless mining —yes!’ ” only when the tide is very low. It was, of course, the missing saddle than worthy and lovable Bernard de Calcine Plaster, Hair, away toward her basket, and he heard There is a curious postoffice in Can stock on the basis of a fraudulent tele Montragoux came with his seventh her plucking juicy ears in the distance. gram purporting to come from an ex plate, which the ingenious cook had ada. It is situated in Lake. Wabl- “conveyed” as a heraldic decoration. wife, Jeanne de Lespoisse, cleverest When he came toward her witlr his goon, Ontario. It consists of a wooden pert he had sent out to Investigate the and most fascinating of a family of COAL. gray clothes on his arm he forgave her box or trough fastened to a pole stand mining property, but which was in utterly unscrupulous adventurers. No the smile that lurked about her red reality sent in a manner similar to the Not Porsonal. ing upright in a shallow portion of the Count d’Orsay had an explosive tem one knew anything about the supposed lips. lake. A steamer drops In this box above by a confederate. This eastern late husband of the mother. Of the “The truly great are modest,” he man’s faith in telegrams cost him some per. Sir Algernon West says that the Wesley H ollister, such letters as may be carried for that count “once called on the publishers, tw6 brothers, a dragoon and a musket said, looking quizzically at the tom region on her return voyage, and a thing more than |10,0(X). eer, one was a low rascal and a mere and shrunken garments that were dis The story of a fraud with an amus- Messrs. Saunders & Otley, on Lady 3 Hilliard Street- canoe is sent out from the shore to Blesslngton’s behalf ^ d used very sponge; the other lived on gaming and tributed more or less effectively over collect them, at the same time leaving I Ing side comes from across the water, on the good nature of women to whom his large frame. “And now how shall with a London man of rather convivial strong language. A beautiful gentle the outgoing mall ready to be taken man in a white neckcloth said he he made love. Anne, the sister, was I thank you?” up by the next vessel th.it passes out habits as the victim. This man waa the incarnation of malicious cunning. DR. MAY. “By making good your escape,” she forgetful and used to leave at home his would rather sacrifice Lady Blessing ward. ton's patronage than stand such per Asso
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