The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 19, 1906 Page: 7 of 8
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THE SULPHUR SPRINGS GAZETTE, JANUARY 19, 1906.
FiutUii
Ben Franklin,
PrinteranS .
* Author *
Born Jan. 17.17**; Died April 17. 17'JO
ZJ
HE two hundredth a mil
versory of lie.
P,-**'^aV 0^'> to be celcbrat
Ftli o
Franklin.
Jan 17 ar Ws
Tplacc, Boston; at
liome city of Phil
'dolphin, at New York
and elsewhere, will
(live Americans a
chance fitly to honors
'man who never vethak
been raled at his true
value. He was so un-
ostentatious, so home-
ly in speech and dress,
so human withal and
had so little of the outward show of
greatness that we have not yet beheld
the colossal proportions of his mind
and soul. Thomas Carlyle, with his in-
sight into the heroic and spiritual qual-
ities of men, has referred to Franklin
as “one of the demigods." It is safe
to say that: the future, with its larger
vision and appreciation; will agree with
Carlyle’s.estimate: • ;
Franklin was the ntoderu Socrates.
The parallel between these two great
characters is almost startling. Pet us
not imagine that the American philoso-
pher is dwarfed by comparison with
the Athenian. We tire apt to magnify
the distant prophet and neglect the one
near by. When the world has l,ooo or
2,000 years of intervening distance
across which to contemplate tlie practi-
cal discoverer of electricity, writer of
proverbs and friend of liberty, it may
be able to measure bis true proportions.
Solomon and Marcus Aurelius, who
also were characters made in much the
same mold as Socrates and Franklin,
if tested by service to after ages, are
no more entitled to our consideration
than this plain Philadelphia philoso-
pher. Yet theirs are names mighty in
the ages. What right have we to con
elude that the name of Franklin will
not be alike mighty In tlip happier days'
ihat are to be?
Benjamin Franklin was born Jan. il,
okl style, or Jan. 17, new style, 1700
His forefathers had been blacksmiths
in England. His father was a tallow
■ handler in Boston. Young Ben had
only two years’ schooling, after which
he helped his father for a time in
candle molding, when lie was appren-
ticed to his brother James, a printer.
After a time this brother siarted a [in
per, and Ben, although a mere boy,
wrote for it. Papers were not popular
in those days, especially with men in
power, and James got into jail once or
twice for his pains Then Ben ran
the paper. Finally : it was put in his
name, and be built it up both in cir
■ •illation aud literary quality His
brother often chastised him, however,
and this ^he high spirited boy would
not stand, so he rati away. Before go-
ing he bnd read every book be could
lay his bands on, had developed con
slderable ability as u disputant, had
written verses which had circulated in
pamphlet form and hud got himself
disjjked because of the freedom of bis
religious opinions, in fact, some of
the Ihiritnuieal Bostonese called him
an atheist. So he was almost a pariah
when he pulled up stakes one night
and slipped iway to New York. Fail,
ing to tiDd work there, he went on to
Philadelphia, where he arrived witli
only a dollar in his pockei. The first
night he slept iu the Friends’ meeting
house. He spent almost his last money
in buying three loaves of bread, two of
which he fed to beggars. Then he
hunted work at his trade and found it
After a time the governor of the prov-
ince became interested in the bright
Poor Richard, 1733,
A N
Almanack
• F01 the Year of Chnfl
1 7 3 3’
B«lng the FitR after I EAP YFAR:
mo*tt fmt tt* Crtstim Yfart
By the Account of ihe £ fo'n 734*
By ihc Larin Chu»ch, when Q enr f &9\2
By the Computation of US tV 5*42
By «he Romm Chronology j<S8j
By the JevniJb Rabbin 54^4
Wherein 11 contained
The Lunations, Erlipfes, judgment of
the Weather, Spring Ti.let, Ph«*i, Monom&
muruil Afpedo, Sun jnrl Moon* Riling and Set
ridg, Length of Dm, Time nf High Water,
run. Cmm, and obfcrvahle Da>»
Fitted torhe Latitude ol Fom Degrees
and a Meridian of Fr«- Hour, WHI from fmJcn,
hut map without fenfiMe Error ferae all the ad-
Placea, e*en from MrWmniW ro Sixth-
jacenr
Cxnlhu.
By RICHARD SAUNDERS, Fhilom.
PHILADELPHIA!
Primed and fold bp B FRANKLIN. n the New
Pinning Office neai the Market
The Third frapreiftoa. 1
he returned to Philadelphia and after
work .ig a sln^rt time for a merchant
mniuigetl to sei himself up as a printer.
f rom thin time bis rise was steady
aud rapid.:, He tmught the Peunsylvu
m* Burette when it was on the verge
of ruin and built it tip till it was the
most influential puper in the colonies.
Shortly after, when he was twenty sis.
appeariHl “Poor Richards Almanack”
under the pseudonym of Ilicliard Saun-
ters. Ibis made an immediate hit. the
hrsi number running through three
translated into al-
rnostp^Vj^ ■ ®da"ge ’o ^ rji ice fie. Tuis
he confiiined publishing for twenty-five
years. Souir,* of the kindly, wise say-
ings in it have become as much house-
hold words as are the quotations from
Shakespeare or the Bible. Here are a
few of the most famous:
God helps them that help theals.-1, .-
Laziness- travels so slowly that Poverty
Soon overtakes him.
Early to beg and e.g-lv to rise makes a
•man'mntTfHy, f.ealtliy a"iiT"wi»r~-
Never leave that till tomorrow which
you van do today.
What maintains one vice would bring tip
two children.
Buy what thou hast no need of and be-
fore long thou ijh^lt self. Uiy necessaries.
It is hard for an empty bag to stand up-
right.
Three may keep a secret —if two of them
are dead.
Deny self tor self s sake.
Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep
thee:
Ati old young man'."will he a young old
man.
/Forewarned, forearmed.
God heals.; ..the doctor'takes the («.<-
He tie It -wcMild have <t short Kent he him
borrow money to be repaid at Easter.
A good conscience is i( eoiitifiuai 'Christ-
mas.
These.were all new when Franklin
said therafdtnl they tire not liad even'
m
FACSIMILE OF THE COVEU OF "POOH B1CH-
AltD's ALMANACK."
lad und proposed to set him tip in busi-
ness as a printer. For that purpose he
sent him to London to secure an outfit
but failed to provide funds according
to promise. As u result poor lien was
strutided und bud to go to work again
st Ills trade, While In London Ito at?
traded quite a little attention by
swimming four utiles, lie hud been uu
expert swimmer us a boy, the only
sport, by the way, that he ever Effect
eij. Uls stay In LoBdou was of ad
1-'RAN KLIN'S BIBTHPLAfE. hOSTub
when old Franklin not only wrote
these things; he lived them lie had a
definite and systematic way of check-
ing up his conduct lie made a list of
the cardinal virtues, theu marked op-
posite each any slight infraction on his
own part during each day. To perfect
himself in writing lie took a copy of
the Spectator, fixed the thought of some
particdlar paragraph in bis mind, then
after the lapse of a few days tried to
reproduce it. lie always strove for self
improvement While a boy he ran on to
a description of the Socratic method of
questioning and making tentative stale
•ments. It made such a deep impres-
sion on his mind that he abandoned the
dogmatic method of saying “Undoubt-
edly” and "Certainly” ami adopted the
more modest and winning method of
saying. "It appears to me to be so aud
so,”*or, "If I am not mistaken, it is
thus and so." To this habit early form-
ed he owed much of his success as a
writer and diplomat iu later life.
Benjamin Franklin did not become
au author merely for popularity. Of
the creation of literature for its own
sake he knew nothing. He wrote a!
ways to further some especial cause he
had in view or with the distinct object
of aiding men's morals and material
well being Outside of the almanac
the only considerable work from his
pen is his autobiography. This was
unfinished at the time of his death and
was not published until some time aft-
erward.
The ItTlefs aiid pbtitica I papers’ also-
contain much of the trenchant wisdom
and homely philosophy of this versatile
man. He was one of the few who
could not write without saying some
thing. It. might be a letter on never so
trivial a subject; still the individuality
of Franklin shone through. He made
everything he did or said worth while
only because he was in it. He was so
distinct, so different, yet so universal
am#*so common, that everything he
touched he made vital with his own
being. No man, at least in modern
times, ever entered so many fields and
made himself master of them all. This
was because he was always and every-
where Ben Franklin, a distinct and
definite entity and sufficiently forceful
to lend to all that emanated from him
his own distinction. After all. it is
great souls that count, and Franklin
rvas great enough and original enough
to leave an impress the world can nev-
er lose. He became an influence In
all after-civilization that can never be
eradicated. He sowed himself In his
age, and the thought seed grew, to be
reproduced in after ages. Ho was a
pervasive sort of man, und there Is lit-
tle of the occidental world that has not
felt his presence. He was at home with
the scientist or the peasant, with the
king or the revolutionist, In the. salon
Or the backwoods. Such universal
Characters are rure. They seem to
touch humanity at every point, to com
preheud aud include It. They are so
great they do not need to seem great,
and therefore their genius is often un
perceived by those nearest at hand 7"
This much can be said ofHtenJumiu
Franklin: He was the most conspicu-
ous newspaper man nt bis day anil to
that extent wus tbo founder of the
mpdern American press. Ilo was one
of the best printers, if uot tbo best, jn
the colonies, und he was the most cole-
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JOHN f. LENANF,
General Freight and Pass. Agt..
Tyler, Texas.
0. M. MORGAN,
Traveling Passenger Agent.
R. C, FYFt,
Ass’t. Gen. Frt. and Pass. Agent.
Tyler, Texas.
GUS HOOVER,
Traveling Passenger Agent,
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2JJA Ft. Worth, Texas. Waco. Texas, 22^
Selling Young Girls.
Vancouver, B. C., Jan. 16.—The fol-
lowing is an extract from a report
made to the government regarding
the slave trade among British Colom-
bia Indians by the Children’s Aid
Society:
“Girls with white skins, thick
brown hair braided down their backs,
big, innocent, childish eyes, are being
sold today and have been for years in
British Columbia to the highest bid-
ders. The slave masters are the Cape
Mudge Indians; the slaves are white
because their grandmothers were sold
to white men and when their grand-
mothers wandered back to the tribe,
deserted and abandoned, they brought
white baby girls with them, and in
course of time the male relatives of
these abandoned creatures sold these
baby girls too, when they grew np to
young girlhood.’’
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Goebel and Clay Statues
Cincinnati, O., Jan. IS—Statues of
William Goebel and Henry Clay are
proposed for Kentucky’s represen-
tation in the Hall of Fame at the Cap-
itol in Washington in a bill introduced
in the Kentucky Legislature yesterday
by Representative Alvwson, of Lin-
coln County.
An appropriation of $10,000 is pro-
vided and the Governor is authorized
to name five Commissioners to select
snd place the statues.
Within the next month Georgia
will pay out 510,000,000 to Confederate
soldiers in pensions.
There are some counterfeit nickles
in circulation in Morris county. Some
one told ns that they were made in
Morris county, but we have failed to
locate them . so far. It is only a
qneston of time when some one will
hollow.—Morris County News.
There are thirteen bankers in the
Ohio state prison; an nnluckey num-
ber of unluckey fellows-
A battle royal is on between the
president and the senate on the oan-
al. Investigation is to be made of
matters relating to the Panama canal
and pending them a number of ap-
pointments by the president to posi-
tions on the canal will be hung up.
Breakers seem to be ahead for the
president.
A remarkable account of the Battle
of Round Island, fonght on Augnst 10,
1904, written by an American naval
officer in the far Tlast has been receiv-
ed by the Navy Department.
It shows conclusively that when the
Russian fleet ventured from the Har-
bor of Port Arthur it really could have
escaped had the Russian officers real-
ized that Togo was in desperate plight
due to the bursting of his 12-inch
guns.
According to the American officer,
Togo was on the point df withdrawing
when the Russian fleet became de-
moralized through the loss of its lead-
er, Admiral Witgeft, and fled, pajjjfrr
stricken, back to the shelter of the
guna of Port Arthur.
Peculiar Damage Suit.
Paris, Texas, Jan. 16—A suit for
damages, based on unusual grounds,
was decided in the Sixty-second dis-
trict court yesterday. T. J. Oliver
sued Sam Grant for 513,000 damages
on account of personal injuries. The
two men are farmers and neighbors,
living in the southeast corner of La-
mar county. Several months ago they
had a personal difficulty and Oliver was
struck with a stick. In the petition
he claimed one of his legs was broken.
On trial of the case the defense de-
manded an X-ray picture of the alleg-
ed limb, which was taken, and ex-
hibited to the jury. The doctor who
took the picture testified that it did
not show a fracture. The jury, after
half an hours deliberation, returned a
verdict for the defehdant.
Some one has “discovered" how
John Philip SonBa got his name. The
story comes from Washington where
the musician was born and educated.
Originally, it is said, his name was
John Philipso. When he entered the
employ of the government as leader
of the Marine band he proudly appen-
ded initals “U. S. A.” for United
States army, so that his full signature
read “John Philipso, U. S. A.” A
stranger, congratulating him upon a
performance of the band, addressed
him as “Mr. John Philip Sousa,” and
his name has been Sousa ever since.
Col. Peeler of Travis county announ-
ces his candidacy for the legislature
and says he will be a candidate for
speaker if elected.
A Quitman woman was on -the eve
of taking a dose of carbolic acid when
her husband knocked the spoon from
her lips. She thought she wa$» taking
saline mixture.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt has ac-
cepted the office of honorary vice
president of the State Mothers’ As-
sembly, of New York. In a letter to
Mrs. B. H Merrill, of Syracuse, pres-
ident of the assembly, Mrs. Roosevelt
stated that, although it was contrary
to her custom, she would be pleased
to accept the office. Mrs. Roosevelt
belongs to no other woman’s club.
____I
The voters of Laredo are making a
fine showing in the payment of poll
taxes. More than twice as many have
paid as at the same time last year.
Church people of Austin have laid
plans for a campaign to raise funds to
erect » *:«>,QO0 Y. M. C. A. Building.
We are informed that Drs. T. J.
and Nash Lynch, of Como were both
served with whitecap notices within
the past week. One of their fences
was torn down and their cattle turned
out. The law abiding people of this
community, and they constitute a
large majority in both town and coun-
try, were indignant at tha outrage.—
Como Democrat.
A Long Island man who ia 40 yeara
old and minua a leg bested his 16-year-
old son in a race for the affections of
a 14-year-old girl.
Bishop Key raised $35,000 at Hous-
ton Sunday for the purpose of erect-
i ng a new Methodist church.”
State Senator Yarborough of Como,
Miss., attended the meeting of the
cotton growers at New Orleans la^t
Uncle Joe Cannon say* “the people ( week, and offered to Um convention a
have the devil on the run.” But! n solution, a copy of which he had al-
Uuclo Joe creates a lingering doubt ! ready Introduced in the legislature,
by falling to state whether the people to euahto cotton growers to build fao-
An Amateur Assaver A Yachting Romance
[Original j
A stngeciwii.-li drove up to the hotel
ia a Pjrosperous mlniug town in the far
west, and a gentleman In clothes of an
eastern cut got out. After having sup-
ped he fell Into conversation with a
rough specimen of the country.
“Minen’ ingeneer, he y’?" said the
westerner, with a slight tinge of irony.
‘•Reckon ye're a trifle late In these
parts. We had rnineu’ ingeneors und
aseayers here afore the stuff was dis-
covered. hut they didn’t hit nothen ."
“Who found the gold?" asked the
stranger
"Waal, there's a yaru about that,”
replied the other: "1 been lu this place
ever sluce we was a handful or people
with no way to come and go except on
foot or by horse or mule. They were
ftndeu' gold all around us, but nary a
flud right here. Finally there was a
stage line run through for the Benefit
of the mines beyond, aud in time the
telegraph was put on. Ihc 'telegraph
operator was a young feller with a
wife and four chlldren'and was gitteu*
more kids right along 1 don’t know
what salary., he got, but It wasn’t
enough to keep his family out o’ rags
and from lookep’ hungry. The operator
didn’t gif much sympathy, for instead
o’ tryen’ to do extra \Vork to ’help
along he was foblen’ tils time away
with glass bottles and acids and sich
tilings Tl»' next 'firing we khowed
there waj. a sign stuck up on the tele-
graph office ‘William Harris, Assayer.’
Waal, we all laughed at tire telegraph
operator setten’ up In a trade; at which
there wasn’t nothen’ to do.
“Oue evenen’ I see a gang‘around Bil-
ly Harris a-guyen’ him, and l went to
find out what they was given’ him. It
turned out that they had put up a job
on him by chtppen’ off a piece of his
own doorstep and give it to him to
assay Billy had reported that it as-
sayed $250 to the ton. They was laugh-
en’ at him and poken’ fun at him till
*be poor feller was ready to have the
ground open and swirlier him. Only
one on ’em didn’t Jeer, and he tole him
that Ire had a Jolt o’ diggen' a founda-
tion for a cabin he’d give him which
he'd better take ftnd make one decent
meal for his poor wife and children.
Billy turned away crushed.
“Waal, instead o’ goen’ to work Billy
went to his cabin, where his wife put
her arms around his neck and comfort-
ed him ,J...
“ ‘How did you happen to make such
a blunder. Billy?” she asked
“‘Dunno,’ says Billy
“ 'Well, nrebbe you’d better grrover
your work and see.’
“So Billy he goes to his telegraph of-
fice and works till late, then goes homo
and tells his wife ho can’t find no mis-
take; that the devil must ha’ got into
his bottles nnd done all the mischief.
The woman didn't soy nothen’ then
only fer Billy to go to sleep and he’d
find his mistake the next nrornen'.
‘‘Tlioj fust thing Bllly.idees the next
day Is to go up to the cliff up there,
where he knowed nil the Ktoneyused
here come front, and chips off a piece
o' the rock. He takes it to Iris office
and puts on the acids and firings and
gits the same result as afore: 'Jlreir he
goes home and tells his wife that he
hain’t made no mistake at all, and the
second assay was better’n the fust,
sence it give $300 to tire ton.
‘‘Waal, without sayeu' noUren’ to no-
body Billy took the pieces o' stone to
assaycra and without tellen’ 'em where
they come from tole ’em to assay 'eir.
They nil give him the same results he
got himself Billy went home and,
shetten' himself up with his wife, tole
her that the cliff was a gold mine and
they was the only people oti the earth
that knowod It.
“While this was goo it' on we w us a
guyeu' Billy fer all we Was wo’th.
Billy didn't say nothen'; be kep’ look
en’ sorrowful like and hung trls tread
Then one day his wife she went away,
and when she come back she brought
her brother, a sleek looketr’ chap with
store - clothes on him. He cavorts
around makeu’ trips up to the cliff and
loaden’ his pocket with chipped pieces
At the same time Billy ’s telegraph ma-
chine was a-efieken’ aud a elk-ken' as
It hadn’t never clicked before. The
next thing we knowed wars that the
brother-in law had bought fire cliff, or
a certain part of it, and Billy and
tire In fronts* to tiuurjiir [n the race, lories and oil mills and nta
”xuitp i
A pa**eng«r on Katy flyer became ( oil, U provide* tor election
infantur« |
send into
a fool to find he’s got the drop on y’.
We talked the matter over, und some
ono of us hit on tiro fact that Billy's
doorstep and the cliff was one and the
same thing. Then we seen fire reason
fer the Harris people buyen’ the cliff
When I met Billy ug’ln, I says to him,
says I, ‘Billy, what’ll y’ take fer yer
doorstep?' Ho didn’t make no an
awer, but do y' know, stranger, that
night the doorstep disappeared, nnd
the next day a surveyor staked out
Billy's qlalm and ho and his brother
In-law Btood guard over it with guns.
* “The next step was the organization
of the Doorstep mine, and It leaked
ent that the company had given Billy
06 per oeut of the stock fer the prop
erty.
“When Billy got older and richer,
he elected himself president He's
been runnen’ It ever sence, and it's
been payeu' better and better One
of his girls—the raggedqst one of the
lot In them times—lies lately married
a-British dul.o and another’; goen' to
marry it pfltu.-e ”
At this point a prors|.<-rou» tootling
man came up to the hotel and tin*
westerner rose and stood respectfully
walling for the gentleman to notlfe
hliri. The Ihttor did ho and pa c«*d In
“flllRtn TTtSU-Ctm Ml,,ry j
,«Triirtnal p ---“———
lu B.iniegat hay there Is good Ash-
ing. and on Baruegat hay there are
mosquitoes. 1 was there with a fish
tng party on a sloop we had hired at
Bayhead. Being more of an explorer
than a 'fisherman, one afternoon 1 took
a boat and pulled in toward a cove
shaded, by great trees, On reaching
land 1 saw a man standing on the
shore. He was In dingy trousers aid
shirt, topped by a twenty-five cent
straw hat, and was puffing on a pipe.
"Say, you there!" 1 called "How
about a landing?"
"Come right in here." -
1 did so, and he pulled my host’s
nose up on to the shelving shore. 1
stepped out of the boat and, looking at
the man. whom I had supposed to he a
countryman, saw something familiar
In his face 7
"Haven’t I met you somewhere?’ I
asked
"Are you Tracy, the man that played
right tackle on the Harvard team In
18B—?'
“Yes. And you?"
"I’m Heydon. 1 played against you
In the Yale team.”
“And made the big run that gave
your, college the game,"
"I made a run in that game,” he re-
plied modestly
“What In tie* world are yen doi-ftf-
bere?” . ’
"Oh, 1 was always au odd fish l
don't like a crowd. I live here In that
little stone hut up there.”
"You’re the hermit they were talk
lng about on the yacht last night.''
lie took mo to his hut and showed
me how he lived. He had built a bank
In one corner, there were a fireplace
under the chimney where he cooked
his own food, a pine table, a couple of
ramshackle chairs and a cracker box
full of tableware. He had screened
his door and window with mosqnlto
netting
“YOU me an odd fish, sure enough,”
I said "How loug have yon lived
here?'
"A year this summer "
"Like It?"
“Better than jostling people who
don't care for me except what they can
get out of me.
I Invited hlifl to go aboard the yacht
with me, but he declined, and l left
him feeling sure that some unpleasant
experience must have soured him.
Having completed our fishing he re-
turned to Bayhead and I to Scabrlght,
where I was staying with n friend la
his summer <-ottnge. We had at dinner
on tlie night of my arrival u Miss Gan
nett from New York, fabulously rich
She had come In ber own yacht and
was on her way down the coaat to
Old 1’olnt Comfort. At dinner 1 told
of my meeting with Ileydon, and Miss
Gannett, who was Interested in curios
files, remarked that she had heard nt
such people, hill did nol believe they
existed.
The next day, Miss Gannett invited
me to make one of tlie party on her
yacht. 1 was much surprise*! at the
Invitation and particularly delighted
Who could tell hut that 1 might make
a match for myself on the trip. MIsh
Gannett was a very pretty- girl or
woman she wus twenty six years old
and there are few bachelors who
would not Ire pleased to marry ua
attractive woman with a large fortune.
I accepted at once, and we started on
the voyage.
"Is the fishing really very good lu
Baruegat bay?’ Hbe ask*-d me us wo
were nenriug Its mouth
"Not very; tip* mosquito*** are hor
rlhle."
"I dote on fishing. 1 think we'd bet-
ter put In ther** and see If we can get
a few blucfiHh."
"We might visit fie- hermit." I sag
gtisted.
“Oh, we wont have time for that.”
Rounding tlie isilrit, we salted up the
bay and anchored not far from whero
we had fished a week before. It was
sunset when the anchor fell, and by D
o’clock Miss Gannett was in her berth
witli a headache The hostess having
withdrawn tin- other ladles followed,
and the men, not wishing to keep then
awake, turned I11 also.
All the next day we sailed up und
down tha hay or lay at anchor fishing.
itu uow
wife was part owners. Then we Bmdespite my report on Baruegat
gun to look nt each other and scratcfC &§*' “? u fishing ground we were atm
our heads. There ain’t no meaner feel loaded with fish. I supposed that
en', stranger, than after callen' a feller getting enough to supply our
4
larder for a few days we would proceed
south, hut Miss Gannett, despite tb*
beat and the Insects, persisted In r*»
(naming wEere «’o were. For two
duys we fished, rousted nnd fought the
little pests, hut on the morning of the
third ou looking out the porthole la
my cabin I saw UiaL we were out at
sea. I dressed and went on deck.
Our hostess was already up and out
quaffing the Invigorating ocean air
Beside ber stood a stalwart figure In a
new spick and span yachting costume,
blue peajacket und cap, with whtto
flannel trousers. His back was toward
me, hut he turn*sl presently and gave
me the surprise of my life Ho was
the hermit
Miss .Gannett culled to tne. .“1 wish
to Introduce you to tny fiunce, Mr. Hey
don,” she said, smiling "I believe you
have met before."
"When did he come uhoard?” were
the first worih* ! succeeded In getting
out
"Last night "
Years afterward Heydon told mu tbo
story. They find been lovers, but Miss
Gannett’i nerto’y had made trouble be
tw<-en them, aud Heydou had disap
pear<*d. It was I who discovered bl(»
j aud (rat hi* ladylove ou his track. -Bln*
I had boon rowed ruhoro ou the night of
mr arrival In lb*,* bay. They had made
vintage to him, us ho gained now no t
larger views of life and road many
bra led American author up to Ida own
day and for generations afterward
front tbo train while running at full
i tgainut an assessment tax on ■ .(
■t; wwnvr
t*»n fMr 1 farris, pnetideut of tie Door
Now York for cloUua and, renjrnln|,' T~
bad coma * board after midnight.
“ HI MNJM ( IIILim
#
now huoks Hut at tbo first opportunity
J A. MKlICItTON’.
spu'd, Ho was picked up fatally In-
jurod Namo out kuown.
produced, to eroato 4 fund to hr
factories
did I Stop -luld Mining isnnpany.”
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