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TRAGEDY OF A $5 BILL
The Poor Victim Got Plenty of Action
For Her Money.
“I’m in terrible trouble,” wailed
the top tloor girl. “1 don't know
what 1 shall ever do about it.”
“What’s happened?” asked her
sympathetic friend.
“Everything. It’s all about How
ard, and—oh, dear, it’s awful! You
lee, I discovered the other day that
l had lost $5. It had been handed
me when I was at my writing desk,
and instead of at once putting it
away in a safe place I stuck it into
an envelope and left it there. Later
I wrote several letters, and when I
again remembered the five dollar
bill it was gone.
“My natural supposition was that
I had sent it away in one of the
letters 1 had just written. All those
letters except one were business let
ters. The exception was to Howard
Strong. I immediately wrote to
every one of my correspondents and
explained what I had done and ask
ed them to examine the envelope
for a trace of the $5. Howard
Strong is the only one that has re
plied so far. He sent me the $5.
Fortunately, he said, he had not de
stroyed the envelope, and there,
tucked away in one corner, he had
found the five dollar bill.
“Naturally I felt pretty good over
' that outcome of my mistake, but
the next morning when the second
chapter began to unroll I didn’t feel
quite so comfortable. I found then,
in the top envelope of a bunch that
I had previously overlooked, that
five dollar bill.
“It’s no use for anybody to try to
imagine how I felt then, for it
cannot be done. I spent fully two
hours puzzling over Howard’s mo
tive in sending me the money.
Finally I came to the conclusion
that he must have construed the
letter as an ingenious way of asking
for a loan, and he had forthwith re
sponded in the same roundabout
fashion. I wrote Howard a stinging
rebuke. I claimed that by putting
such a construction on my letter he
had insulted me. Of course I re
turned the $5. (
“About two hours after I had
mailed that letter the third chapter
began. Ellen Fariss and I use that
writing desk in partnership. It was
Ellen’s turn at the desk. The first
thing 1 knew she was upsetting
things in general looking for a par
! ticular envelope.
I “‘\yhat kind of an envelope was
iit?’ I asked.
1 “‘One of those plain white ones,’
she said. ‘It was right on top of
this bunch. I stuck a five dollar bill
into it yesterday’—
“At that point in Ellen’s explana
tion I collapsed. It was her money
that I had returned to Howard, and
I had to take the last $5 I had in
the world to settle with her. I
haven’t heard from Howard, and 1
have not had the courage to write
again. I said in my last letter that
all was over between us, and appar
ently it is.”—New York Times.
Costly Windsor Castle.
No royal castle has cost Great
Britain more in hard cash than that
of Windsor, says the London Chron
icle. Wljen George IV. announced
his intention of making it a family
residence parliament granted him
£300,000 toward its reconstruction.
For four years the work went merri
ly on under fresh grants, and the
king then took possession of the
private apartments. That did not
end the expenditure however. By
the time William IV. had satisfied
himself that there was nothing
more to be done the castle had swal
lowed up close to a million' pounds.
Beginning Afresh.
Ralph Waldo Trine, writing in
Harper’s Bazar, says: “Each morn
ing is a fresh beginning. We are, as
it were, just beginnig life. In a
sense there is no past, no future.
Wise is he who takes today and lives
it, and tomorrow when it comes—
but not before it comes. The past
is of value only by way of the les
sons it has brought us. There
should be no regrets or crippled
energies that result from such. We
have stumbled—all have stumbled.”
Had Him Cornered.
“I couldn’t get out of marrying
her,” Henpfck explained. “When
she proposed she said: ‘Will you
marry me? Have you any .objec
tion?’ You see, no matter whether
I said ‘Yes’ or ‘No,’ she had me.”
“Why didn’t you just keep silent,
then?” inquired his friend
“That’s,what I did, and she said,
‘Silence gives consent,’ and that
ended it.”
Put* and Calls.
“I think,” said young Mrs. Tor
kins doubtfully, “that I understand
what is meant by ‘puts and calls.’ ”
“Oh, you do!” rejoined her hus
band. *
, ‘‘Yes. ..A person, with a tip puts
some money m a broker’s hands and
after awhile somebody calls and gets
it.”—Washington Star.
VISION OF VULTUKES.
Amazing Senas of Sight of Theae Keen
Eyed Birds of Prey.
Compared with our human eye
sight, the vision of birds of prey is
marvelous. The bird student is of
ten amazed at the immense dis
tances at which hawks, eagles and
vultures can distinguish objects.
It is a well authenticated fact that
vultures do not find their food by
the sense of smell. Many years ago
Charles Darwin experimented with
the carrion birds oi‘ South America
and found that so long as the food
was concealed from sight, no matter
how putrid and ill smelling it was,
the birds failed to detect it. Other
observers have reached the same
conclusion. A correspondent writes:
1 was detailed for service with
some troops that were moving along
the Mexican border. One evening
we camped near a small stream on
the western slope of the hills east
from San Diego. During the night
one of the wagon mules died. We
took the body a short distance from
camp and’partly concealed it in a
clump of willows. The next morn
ing, after the column had resumed
its march, 1 rode to the summit of
the highest hill, some three miles
from our camping ground, and
swept the country through a pair of
powerful binoculars.
As the glasses moved along the
horizon a vulture, a mere speck in
the distance, came into their field,
lie was sailing in great circles in
the blue heavens, miles away far
beyond the ken of the unaided eye.
Suddenly he paused in his flight,
turned sharply and headed directly
for our abandoned camp ground. I
watched him until I was convinced
that he had discovered the dead
mule.
Then I r6collected that years ago
I had read in one of Captain Mayne
Reid’s books something of the hab
its of vultures, and I began to look
for others. In a few minutes an
other appeared, a black speck in the
sky, speeding in the wake of the
first. Then another and another
came, from different points of the
, compass. Then more and more, all
hurrying toward their loathsome
feast.
While I watched the gathering
vultures I made a little calculation.
When the first vulture discovered
the carcass he was not visible to the
naked eye and was but a speck
through the binoculars. That is,
adding the three miles 1 had ridden
from camp to eighteen, the range
of the binoculars, the bird must
have been nearly twenty-one miles
from the carcass. That the vulture
depended upon his vision alone is
evident, as enough time had not
passed for any putrefactive changes
to taint the air.
Another interesting thing was
the promptness with which the
other vultures took the hint when
the first made his discovery. There
was only one in sight to begin with;
in ten minutes there were fifty.—
j Youth's Companion.
The Difference In Men.
] One man will settle down into the
i routine of his calling, digging the
ruts deeper each day, until he loses
power to see out from them. An
other in the same vocation shows
an ability to make each day’s work a
source of new growth in power and
in appreciation. So, one person will
rest passively on the fact of some
well established love or friendship
and thus lose after a time the beau
ty of the relationship and the mean
ing it once possessed for his life,
while another actively wooes the love
of his friend every day and so finds
a deep, ever opening below deep in
the relatonship. with an ever fresh
realization of the truth and wonder
of l;fe.—Edward Howard Griggs.
Wanted His Money's Worth.
“Have you any choice as to the
wedding march ?” asked the church
organist.
“The wedding march ?” echoed
the father of the bride.
“Yes; the march that is played
when the bridal procession moves
down the aisle. Which one would
you prefer—Mendelssohn’s or the
march from ‘Lohengrin ?’ ”
“Any difference in the expense?”
“Oh, no!”
“Then play the one that’s the
longest.”
Sejf Protection.
“Harry,” exclaimed the .little
boy’s mother, “if you don’t stop
pulling that cat’s tail 1 will pull
your hair and give you a chance to
see bow you like it yourself.”
Harry ceased for a moment and
then said:
“Ma, please give me a quarter.”
“What for?”
“I want to get my hair cut.”—
Exchange.
Sympathy.
“The Harduppes have twins.”
“Well, they nave my sympathy.”
"Who have ?”
"The twins, of course.” — New
York World.
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