% 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.