The Cumberland Echo, 1893-10-12

There was a man orce - Geoffrey Hal. kett by name - of few failings, but chief among them was the ineradicable con conviction - viction conviction that he understood the inner innermost - most innermost workings of the mind of a girL "A clever beggat I once knew," he explained one night to his old intimate, Paddon - "in fact, about the cleverest beggar I ever did know - once said to me: -If you know one thing thoroughly you hold the key to everything.' - didn't strike me ---at - 1 ---at - 1to -- to ---at - 1to It time. me particularly at the I had no reason for testing it, but it's awfully true, Jim. I can see it now." It was in Jim Paddon's rooms in Gray s inn that this sententious remark was uttered. Jim Paddon was at the moment keenly interested in wonder wondering - ing wondering whether the cork of a s6da water bottle would come out easily, like tooth with gas, or would require tracting with a wrench. - a I ex exgas - gas exgas The gained the day. W1 91 1. - Sometimes this *1 - 5 "Well," he said, content now to daily With trivialities, "and what if it is?" Well, I'll tell you. Sometimes this knowledge is very useful to you, and sometimes - well, it's just amusing. I don't think I'm particularly conceited, but I Hatter myself that I hate always had a knack of understanding girls. It isn't a thing a man cares to talk about much. In the first place ninety-nine people out of a hundred would put anyone down as a fool who said this - possibly, I am rather femininely minded. In any case, I often used to think I could see things from their point of view better than most fellows an'd argue their cases in their own way. Now, since I have thoroughly under understood - stood understood one girl, I know I can do this. And what is the consequence? Why, they never astonish me now." am Paddon took his pipe from his mouth and attempted to realize an old ambi ambition, - tion, ambition, and blow a second smoke ring through a first "My experience," he said, when fail failure - ure failure tripped him up remorselessly, "is that they vary too much. No two are alike and they always get mixed up, and to try to put them right is the worst of all." Whether he was alluding to smoke rings or girls was not very clear. Halkett looked at him pityingly He might have had doubts about wom women, - en, women, but he knew that he understood men. "Look here, old fellow," he said, "you've either had one whisky too many or too few." , Paddon adoptedsthe only course open to him. "Who's the poor girl you've experi experimented - mented experimented on? Do I know her?" »1 "That's rather a brutal way of put putting - ting putting it, but I suppose it's Kate." "Then," said Paddon, "isn't it almost a pity that you are not going to marry her instead of me." . y ** * *" ti Halkett smiled. He was not a mar marrying - rying marrying man. -When next the two friends met it -Was at the home of Kate Temple, the maiden who, after being analyzed by one man, had perversely fallen in love . with another. Halkett, too philosoph philosophical - ical philosophical to be jealous, had only found in the circumstance of her preference for his friend a further proof of the well wellknown - known wellknown law that ideals must be low lowered - ered lowered half-mast high when science paanen by. In short, he liked her still, but his ** attitude now might best be described as one of slightly contemptuous sympathy. The circumstances under which they* all met were now rather depressing. James Paddon had many weaknesses, and one of them had just attained an alarming prominence, Sir McDermott .Ballarat, who doubled the parts of emi emiV - V emiV .: nent specialist and family friend to the Temples (for Kate had one incum incumbrance - she - brance - she incumbrance - she was garrisoned round about by a maiden aunt with fads), had just discovered that his. dear yonng triend Paddon possessed only one lung

' instead of the normal number, and that that interesting relic must on no ac account - count account be allowed to winter in England. It was now September. The young man might take his lung to Davos Platz or to Colorado, but he must be off without delay. Halkett, like most people, was at his best in emergencies. The one cheering fact to the Temples on this last de depressing - pressing depressing evening was his quiet an announcement - nouncement announcement to Kate that if Jim liked he would go with him and look after him. He had previously arranged it all with Paddon, who was pleased. This almost reconciled Kate to her lover's going to the further country. Jim Pad Paddon - don Paddon did not feel ill, he said, whereas if he went to a place haunted by invalids he would grow worse out of sympathy. The good-bys that night were said in chapters. Geoffrey Halkett left first and Kate's eyes were eloquent when she thanked him. She did not say much, but he was satisfied. It was at that moment that the eminently femi feminine - nine feminine thought occurred to her: "What a pity Geoffrey should not marry some nice girl!" Then old Mrs. Temple said good-by to all and discreetly left the lovers to settle the rest This look two hours and three-quarters, during which time Geo ff rey leaned against a lamp lamppost - post lamppost smoking and thinking it rather a pity that Kate's eyes should* be wasted on Jim. He was aroused by Jim rush rushing - ing rushing down the steps, almost knocking him down and swearing at him. They walked to London that night, by way of getting up strength for the journey. The next day they started. Ruskin, who advocated once a period of lengthened probationary absence for the young man in love, probably fore foresaw - saw foresaw the advantage of taking steps which would cancel fifty per cent, of first engagements. Paddon was not to His be relied upon with impunity. lung grew lusty and strong in the bracing air of the Rocky mountains, but he fell in love with a settler's daughter just before the time when he should have returned to Kate. Halkett had noticed this emotion in its in ini - i ini cipient stages, but Paddon had not, I nor had it even tinged his letters to Kate, when he contracted a prevalent form of fever and the settler's daughter nursed him .through it. As soon as he became convalescent he bestowed on her a ne w Colorado edition of his old Ipve for Kate. Now, Paddon's illness had been Hal Halkett's - kett's Halkett's opportunity. Whatever swerved in him, it was never his loyalty to his friends. He wrote to Kate regularly, reporting the invalid's health. When Jim regained convalescence it was promptly brought home to him that he should resume management of his own affairs, but his new sentiment barred the way to this. At this crisis it seemed good to Jim Paddon, whose simple brain was not capable of dealing with two sets of emotions, to unceremoni unceremoniously - ously unceremoniously depart with the settler's daughter and marry her. He considerately left

SCHOOL AND CHURCH. - Wakes were religious institutions, even earlier than the love feasts of the first Christians. - The Chinese Sunday school in con connection - nection connection with Bromfield Street church, Boston, has about eighty members. - In the last twenty-five years, so says Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer.eleven million dollars have been given in this country to women's colleges alone. - The Presbyterian Synod f Penn Pennsylvania - sylvania Pennsylvania comprises 1,185 churches, with a membership of 180,902. Additions last year to the communion rolls 11, 11,898. - 898. 11,898. - Prof. George C. Chase, of Bates college, Lewiston, Me., has been ad advanced - vanced advanced to the presidency. He is a graduate of the college, 49 years old. During the past ten years he has raised about 8140,000 for the institution. - Five "traveling scholars" from En England - gland England are in this country, under ap- ' pointment by the Gilchrist Educational ' Trust of Englishmen, to inspect our public-school system and discover any I valuable methods for the education of women. - The late Miss Sarah Benham, of Greenport, Columbia county, N. Y., left by will the following legacies to the Reformed church: 80,000 to the board of foreign missions; 85,000 to the church building fund; to the general synod, 80,500 for the education of students for the ministry and 87.500 for the support of the Theological seminary. Upon settlement of the estate and in con conformity - formity conformity to the will, each of these ob objects - jects objects receives 14 percent. additional, or 80,827, 85,689 and 815,361 respectively; total, 827.877. - A controversy has been going on between the Jews and the people of Switzerland in regard to the slaughter slaughterThe - The slaughterThe Jews always take ing of animals. the life of an animal by bleeding. The Swiss Humane society prosecuted the Hebrew butchers for cruelty to ani animals. - mals. animals. The law forbidding needless pain to animals was enforced against them. Inasmuch as the Jews had a re religious - ligious religious scruple on the subject, it was considered a great hardship, and they appealed to the country for relief, but the people sustained the law in over overwhelming - whelming overwhelming numbers. - Presbyterian numbers. - Presbyterian Journal. - According to the official statistics the total number of schools in the whole German empire is 56,563; pupils, 7,925,688; teachers, 120,932, of whom 13,750 are women. The figures for Prussia are: Schools, 34,742; pupils, 4,916,476, .and teachers, 70,767, 8,484 be being - ing being women. In the entire empire the scholars are 16.03 per cent, of the pop population; - ulation; population; in Prussia. 16.54. In Ger Germany, - many, Germany, outside of Prussia, there is one teacher to every 61 pupils; in Prussia, one to every 70. These teachers re receive - ceive receive from 8150 to 8500 a year. The annual cost of educating a child is, in Prussia, 87.14; throughout the rest of the empire, 87.68.

After a decent interval of these friendly relations he asked her to marry him. Then the friendly intercourse - er me Irtnd-y antercourc snapped like a pipestem and she told him he had insulted her. "You ought by this time," she said, "to know me too well to imagine that I could ever love again." This finished off Geoffrey Halkett He spent a miserable month making up his mind whether to go abroad or to the devil, and he finally decided on a combination, when this letter came: I Diab Mr HALKETT - Have we annoyed you ! In any way? If not, why do you never came to see us now? We shall both be in, and very pleased to see you any afternoon this week if you care to look us up again. Very sincerely yours. KATE TEMPLE P. S - Aunt says she may have to go out Wednesday, but every other afternoon she will be at home. Geoffrey Halkett read this letter, but not all his experience could make him look as though* he had expected it. After a little while he smiled and lit his pipe, and was happy. He might not understand women, but he under understood - stood understood that letter. On Wednesday morning he spent twenty guineas on a ring, on Wednesday afternoon he called at the Temples' and saw Kate. After all, now that he was cured of his chief weakness, he was a very good fellow, and there is never a better wife than the girl .who is capable of astonishing you on occasion. - San Francisco Examiner. European and American. The varying schemes- under which high-priced hotels exact the largest pos possible - sible possible amount of money from their pa patrons - trons patrons were fully investigated by Uncle Jedediah Hawkins, of Hawkins' Cor Corners, - ners, Corners, during his recent visit to the world's fair. On his return he talked learnedly of the American and the Eu European - ropean European plans to. his neighbor, Mr Tudelsack. . "Und vot," asked Mr. Tudelsack, "ish dot American blan mit a hotel?" "The Amerikin plan," answered Un* de Jedediah, " is a scheme in a hotel 'cordin' to which* ye have to eat twice as much as ye want in order to git your money's worth." "Und vot is dot Enrobean blan?" "The European plan is just the other way around. Ye have less'n ye want to eat by payin' fer twiced as much as ye gif' "By shiminy!" said Mr. Tudelsack. "I like petter dot American blan!" - Youth's Companion. - At the Theater. - He - "This is a stupid play, and what a dull audience!" She - "They need stirring up. I wish I had worn my big hat." He - "I wish you had. Then I could at least have got into a row with the man behind me." - Detroit Free Preas

HUMOROUS. - Walter (at Saratoga) - 'Chips, sir?" Straightflush (his mind still on last night's little game) - "Yes; two stacks. both blue." - Buffalo Courier. - Poet - "Can I see the editor? Of Of399 - 399 Of399 Ace Boy - "Yes, if you'll give me a dime." Poet - "I will when I come out." Office Boy - "Yes, but you won't have time then." - "I guess the day for me to be on top is past," soliloquized the battered derby hat in the ash barrel, "but even now I am no slouch, and never will be. See?" - Indianapolis Journal - "My pigmy counterpart." the poet wrote Of his dear child. eke darling of his heart: Then longed to clutch the stupid printer's throat That set it up - "My pig my counterpart." - Antony Chekyl, in Harper's Weekly. - A Word for Himself. - "The man I marry must be handsome," she said. "I'm afraid he will not be,"he answered. "Why not?" "Because very beautiful women usually marry plain men." - N. Y. Press. - "That was an awful fall Dempsey had from the cable train this morn* ing." "How did it happen?" "He saw his wife step off the right way and the shock caused him to lose his footing." - Inter-Ocean. - Mrs. Uppercrust - "You go abroad a good deal lately, do you not, Mrs. Newmonnie?" Mrs. Newmonnie - "La, yes my dear! Why, we're in Paris so much lately that I call us reg'ler Paris Parisites." - Vogue. - ites." - Vogue. Parisites." - Vogue. - - Photograph seller, saturated with modernism, to fair customer - She - "Have you a photograph of Washing Washington - ton Washington Irving?" He - "Yea ma'am! But if you will pardon my correction, his first name is Henry." * ' - Their Respective Worth. - Clara ' (languidly) - "My fiancee is seventy years old. and is worth a million." Mary - "Mine is twenty-eight, and I wouldn't take a hundred millions for him." - Detroit Free Press. - The Effort Abandoned - Grinnen - "And young Fridley Went to the dogs, did he? ' The last time I heard of him Miss Miggles was trying to reform him." Barrett - "Yes, but she gave that up. She married him." - Chicago Tribune. t - Jack Aston (to the s'teenth heiress) ' - "Must it be no always, Miss Scadds? My love pleads before a merciless judge." Miss Scadds - "True; but what ought an habitual criminal to expect?" - Kate Field's Washington. - Hungry Higgins - "I s'pose you. didn't know I was a soldier?" Weary Watkins - "No. What army did you ever belong to?" Hungry Higgins - "The great army of the unemployed. Been soldierin' in it all me life." - In life." - Indianapolis - dianapolis life." - Indianapolis Journal

AN ARAB'S COSTUME. Articles Which Are Found in the Ward* robes of the Poorer Sort. They all dress alike - Arabs, Berbers, Moors and the rest. Item: "One "biled rag" - not the biled rag of the wild and woolly west, but a piece of cotton cloth actually sewed np bag bagfashion, - fashion, bagfashion, with holes cut in it for head and arms, now and then affording the luxury of short sleeves; and which un under - der under no circumstances whatever is "biled," until age has withered and custom staled it into actual rags. Item: If well-to-do, a sleeveless buttoned vest. Item: Real "bags," to adopt our young hunting swell's terms, for trousers. Sartorially speaking, these are made of cotton, and are literally like a bag, whose depth is equal to a little more than the distance from the waist to knee, and whose width equals thrice the distance a man can stretch apart his legs. Cut out the two corners of the bottom of the bag, step through the holes, and gather up the mouth round the waist, and you have the ' pants du pays. There is thus left pendent between the Arab's legs a bag big enough to hide himself in. The origin or utility of this leg-gear it were vain to inquire. Item: One scarf to go a number of times around the waist. Item: If cold, an additional shirtlike garment of woolen goods coming down below the knees. item: One burnoose of white or in Tunis blue woolen goods, with a very roomy hood, exceedingly loose so as to wrap about one and throw over the shoulder. Item: One fez. with, some cotton eloth twisted, rope-fashion,' to wrap round it into the guise of % turban. Item: One pair of shoes, from, woven rushes to Morocco leather. In this dress, or so .much of it as he can afford, the natives live day and night,, from early manhood to old age. When, he dies he is buried in it, or the goes to his son and heir. A very dress 7 few x working city Arabs wear ready-made ' clothing from France, England, per perchance - chance perchance America. More is the pity. It sounds the death-knell to national con contumen - CoL - tumen - CoL contumen - CoL T. A. Dodge, in Harpers " Magazine i ' . "8i

' quired of his former friend was a letter written to Kate, telling her now mat matPaddon - Paddon matPaddon demurred, and ters stood , Mrs. Paddon thought Halkett a nui nuisance. - sance. nuisance. "I may be a sneak," said Jim; "but I'll be - if I'll write myself down one." Halkett declined to enter into the distinction. "You can put it in a gen gentlemanly - tlemanly gentlemanly way if you can," he said. A man with only one lung and a bad case is nd match for a man with two lungs and a good case and a rapidly de developing - veloping developing passion for a woman. In less than a month Halkett was home with the letter. "Kate is devilish obstinate when she's in a bad temper," he said to him himself. - self. himself. "I know what she'll do now; she'll refuse to see me, and I'm not going to trust the letter to the post" Still, he wrote and asked her to make an appointment She replied by re return, - turn, return, naming a day and hour. Hal Halkett - kett Halkett gasped a little at this, but went for a walk to think how he should meet her. He need not have troubled about arranging speeches or lines of con conduct. - duct. conduct. Kate took the initiative at the interview, as he might have known she must She was very civil, only rather 1 distant, and asked him why he wanted I to see her. I "I have brought you a letter," he said. She held out her hand He gave it to her. She looked at the writing, murmured an excuse and left him. When she came back there was little | changed about her except a hesitancy in her speech. "Don't make me apologize," she said, "but, of course, I knew you were right | when you told me, only I wasn't going to allow anyone but Jim to say such things about himself, was I?" "Certainly not, said Halkett, too blinded by the sentiment of the sen sentence - tence sentence to consider its grammar. "It is 11 who have to apologize." So they parted good friends and the student of women went home satisfied, and on the hole rather pleased than not with the sensation of astonishment to which he was now becoming quite accustomed.

a note requesting Halkett to deal with his honor as he thought fit. Geoffrey Halkett was a gentleman by instinct, and at the best but an ama amateur - teur amateur han He had the British aversion to taking away a man's character to a girl. After much deliberation he said to himself: "If I know Kate - and I flatter myself that I do know her - she would rather retain her faith in a dead Jim than lose her faith in a living Jim." So he wrote that Jim had got worse and died. He did not consider himself in this, which was to his credit Then, being no longer required in Colorado, he followed his letter home. On the way home common sense ar argued - gued argued with him and brought home to him very forcibly r that he had made a mistake. Sooner or later Kate must learn the truth. It would be better for her to hear it from him now than to have it brutally broken to her later, when it might injure her life more. It was not a pleasant mission, this mission of con confession - fession confession on which he went a short time after his return, but he confronted him himself - self himself with the thought that she would at least acknowledge that all he had done was out of consideration for her. Geoffrey Halkett never told anyone what happened at that interview. As a matter of fact, the girl heard him all through, and then, white and trembling with indignation, infinitely scornful with herself for having allowed anyone to defame her lover while she listened, she turned and left him - not, though, before she had pointedly suggested that he should never enter the house again. "She had never trusted him from the very beginning," so she said, "and now - " Halkett took up his hat and went. This man, who had thought himself never to be astonished again, was an obstinate man, but not too obstinate to acknowledge himself astonished. He wasted no time over useless arguments or letters, but he went abroad and some time subsequently he met Jim Paddon. The interview was short, but satisfac satisfactory. - tory. satisfactory. All, it appeared, that Halkett re -