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»? . iiiriiiifiii •• •Mi SI - A SAMARITAN. ; IT SKWKLL POB3X Ail righto wwiTid.] T WAS Christ­ mas day. Th« u n f o r t u n 8 < « s who were obliged to spend the day in the St. Julian hotel realized it painfully. They irished they could '* ii. i . in, UUl they could not. Not that the St J alien, as a hotel, was not well m a n a g e d a n d Cheerful enough Id its way, but " \ Who has ever a Christmas at a hotel and wished try another one? Rooms No. 32 and No. 83 in the St. Jnlien were both occupied on this par­ ticular Christmas day. Both occupants %ere women. Both were young--that fe, about 25. » In No. 82 was Miss Estelle Fabayan, a soubrette filling an engagement at the Empire. It was just noon. Miss Fa- bayan had evidently returned from an after breakfast walk, for she was stand- log in the sunlight at the window with her hat and street clothes on, idly tap­ ping her still gloved fingers on the sill 'Its she looked out on the almost deserted Sidewalk. In room No. 83 Miss Eleanor Carlysle was sitting at a table, her gold eye pglasses poised airily on her tip tilted Hose. She was looking over some pages - - of manuscript. Miss Carlysle had come • On from Boston at the invitation of the ||.4foung Ladies' Scientific Relief society. : She was to read an essay that evening on '"The Ethics of Charity." She had been , giving the finishing touches to the essay. ;; V: : Presently she put down the last Bheet ?- of the manuscript and walked to the ; ' window. r. The soubrette and the Boston essayist, unconscious of each other's presence, .Were at that particular moment doing recisely the same thing. Each was king langidly out of the window, and each was tapping the sill with her fin- '•/-"jjfers. . Just then something occurred. A foung woman who had come suddenly ito view on the opposite side o? the Street from the St. Julien attracted the attention of the two young women si the hotel windows. She was glancing liervously behind her. As she Into a run and dashed across the stri fhe soubrette pressed her pretty nos8 f^She pane to see where she went, the essayist. Neither of them jutting cornice hid the sidewalk diately beneath. Miss Carlysle returned to and began to write a letter. Miss Fabayan had a differ® The sunlight had seemed so Jhe determined to take She had just opened her di jone rushing along the hall *" tided with her. The person turned ly and brushed past her into her room. Miss Fabayan saw at a glance that it Was the young woman whom she had „. Seen a minute before running across the vfHtreet. "Weill"-- began Miss Fabayan. * "Oh, please don't put me out! Please don't! They'll get me if you do, and I ;never did it! Please don't!" The young woman had sunk on her lenees on the carpet and was convulsive­ ly grasping Miss Fabayan's hand. "We will see about that," said the sou­ brette. "Now, who are you and what IB the matter? Sit down and explain." Instead of obeying the young woman Ihrew herself on a sofa and cried hys­ terically for several minutes. Then she v grew calmer and began to speak rapidly. "Oh. indeed I am not so bad as they Mm I am! I did not steal! It was the " tinman I met on the street. It must llave been that one. But you don't know » . *«-do you? I was drinking. Yes, I drink. ' When I came down to the city from Ver- gumi, I expected to do very differently from what I did. I thought it would be 4 all pleasure and excitement. But it wasn't. > 4 found work. It was in a dressmaker's #»op. Some of the girls who worked . there taught me to drink. They took iae to their rooms, where they had win© - fcnd other drinks. After awhile I ac­ quired an appetite for it. Last night I < Was drinking with them again. There %as a strange Frenchwoman there, and ;:,-j|he went with me, when we left, to my foom. There we drank more, and when ^ I woke up there was a man from the " dressmaker's, asking for a costly dress Which I had taken home to finish in time ••• Vior Christmas night. ^ "I could not find it in the room. He fiid he must have it, and that if I did ot give it to him at once he should go to the police. He saw that I had been prinking, and he accused me of taking j|he dress to a pawnshop. He said I had ftolen it. But I didn't. It must have |>een that Frenchwoman who was with e. I did not know when she went out. it the police will not believe that. No One knew that the Frenchwoman went to my room with me, for it was late, ^hey will say I stole it myself, and they ? Ifpill put me in jail. If I could get away now, I would go back home. They Would take me back there. I would not Shrink on the farm, and I would never $ome to the city again. I hate it. But |f I am put in jail I never could go back , to the folks again. They would know \ about it, and there would be no place lor me to go. Oh, you do not believe £ that I stole the dress, do you? Tell me |jtou believe what I say!" •fti Miss Fabayan was biting her pretty Bps. Evidently she was undecided. Just then there was a sound of quick footsteps • jn the hall. The sounds came nearer. "They are coming! They are coming!" sobbed the girl wildly. Miss Fabayan turned quickly to her. "Hush! If I can save you, will you go fsfcack to the firm and stay there?" "Oh, indeed, I will. I" "Get into that closet then--quick!" 'pi The girl ran to the cloeet and closed the door jug «n the door] The hotel < the hall. "Er--ah- •ee a young asked the cl "I did not. "Did you­ th" "Well?" sharply. "That's all.' the clerk. The he said, "She tii« other com<j Miss Fabayal when there time it was t "I am Miss i ist "I have "Come in,' "I have hea after the door! "Well?" "I simply i shield that "To what "To the one*J Miss Fabaj door and opei she said kimli the unfortuiial the h?». (down the hall?* Ito the officers, Carlysle ibrette icily, you intend to law?" to the out, now," pone arm around twoman, Miss Fa­ bayan looked ca|mly"at the essayist and said, "I intend to/ give this young woman a chance if it lies within my power, It was a lysle stood haughty I gray eyes glasses at center of Miss Car! "Very is your du "You m; turned Mi Miss Car! together a "Oh, do?" sob "I must arrest me after the "Stay try to ei bayan. close. "She is woman. "Yes," group. Miss Car- back to the door, a face. Her cold raly through her oung women in the the silence. >u cannot see what Uy alive to mine." u please," hotly re- ) er thin lips firmly room. go? What shall I inge young woman, m here. They will it woman is going It is useless to replied Miss Fa- the door of No. 38 sobbed the young said Miss Fabayan. "She is (to the office. She will send I have it! Here--quick! i an had jumped to her feet eyes flashed with excite- hastily opened her trunk and wrapper. now, take off your hat, your your dress! Pqt this on!" young woman mechanically Now, listen," said Miss Fabayan. hey may send another officer. You to stay here. I will go in your place, soon as I am gone you take one of my dresses from that trunk. You will find a hat and a jacket. You will put them on, also a heavy veil. Here is some mon­ ey. Half an hour after I am gone you will walk out. Go directly to the station; and take the first train for your home." "Oh, but you" "Never mind me. I can get out of this all right." The two young women worked hastily. In 10 minutes there was another knock at the door. This time it was a man in; plain clothes. "Which is the young woman who came into this house a few moment* ago?" he demanded. "I came in a few moments ago," said Miss Fabayan. "Then you will have to go with m& I am a detective." "I will go," answered Miss Fabayan calmly. All that afternoon Miss Fabayan passed in a cell in a police station. She had 30D "I AM A DETECTIVE." refused her name and would only say that she had been falsely arrested. The police officials laughed at her. It was 6 o'clock before she asked for a messenger. The message brought the manager of the Empire down in hot haste. His astonishment at seeing his favorite soubrette in a cell was great, He swore at the sergeant, threatened to enter suit against every official within sight and finally gave bail for the ap­ pearance of Miss Fabayan in court. The soubrette, after leaving the police station, dropped her air of outraged and indignant innocence and surprised her manager by laughing heartily at what she called a most ridiculous mistake. She made him promise to make no fuss whatever about the matter. The police, when they found out who their prisoner was, were only too glad to let the affair drop. That Christmas night was the happi­ est, Miss Fabayan assured her friends, she had ever spent. The essay delivered by Miss Carlysle of Boston on "The Ethics of Charity" was declared by the young ladies of the Scientific Relief society to be "perfectly lovely." Miss Fabayan has received an invita­ tion to spend a month next summer on a farm up in Vermont. She says that the invitation comes from a young woman whom she met last Christmas day "un­ der most peculiar circumstances," and she is going to accept It. THE UNlVCRSi. ©usa aod Bbn Wtwm Sbft Are there other worlds? The f wi"** must %e yes. The deductions of science demand it unmistakably. It may be dif­ ficult or impossible to determine just what particular orbs are habitu).)* or in­ habited or to what plane their animated structures may have advanced in the creativo scale, but as the universe eter­ nally was, since this succession of world development and decadence has been in eternal operation, the conclusion is irre- there wae not an infinity of spheres in­ habited. Are we then to conclude that every orb in the skies is the abode of life? Certainly not; nor can we conclude that they are all habitable, for that mat­ ter. We must disabuse our minds of the idea that the universe is solely run to accommodate our little earth" and its fighting biped known as man--that the universe is simply a stage on which he may sicken the gods with his bombastic exploits. Man, wherever he presents himself, must be simply a response to conditions that invite him, and he is an amazingly long time in responding. Nothing is clearer in mathematics than is this fact in anthropology. Long after the earth's crust was cool, after ages of aqueous and igneous warfare, when vegetation was exuberant and huge animals dis­ ported themselves in the great marshes and lagoons, no man was present. Volcanic Niagaras of molten matter shot from the earth's interior, painting in awful grandeur the nocturnal skies with reflected conflagrations, the moun­ tains commenced to wrinkle, and still there was no man. The cooling contin­ ued, the crust thickened, cataclysms ground the rock into drift; the terrors of the convulsive storms grew wider and wider apart, and still there was no hu­ manity to grace the scene. Huge and uncouth life was that, savage and coarse; hoarse cries of savagery, and night ,ras hideous with sanguinary uproar, but no mammalia yet stood erect. From some other world man may have gazed at the earth through his glass and speculate as we do when we gaze on Mars, and thus, while hundreds of gen- erations may have observed, they looked on a sphere where the culmination of the creative process in human evolution had not yet taken place. But man finally came. He stood np. but he was a picture. Behold yet his congeneric brstlirBn in Africs find pjirts of Asia--suspicious heels, suspicious hands! Jaw, face, eyes, brain, general contour, all these were lessons, but ig­ norance, if not altogether bliss, had to be eliminated, as slowly through the ages did he journey up. His crude brain developed with his ceaseless planning to circumvent his lower congeners strug­ gling for existence. Organ after organ was developed, as new impressions forced themselves, until finally he began to a vague idea Or a most rustic uro- and a dim conception of respectability. Such, on the earth, has been man's genesis. On other worlds his must be analogous to this. If, then, we would know aught of man elsewhere we must be able to trace his pedigree here. Knowing the slow stages involved in terrestrial development as regards the evolutions of the spheres, we may know at least its animal de- it. But true knowledge, like true char must begin at home. This world is key with which we lovbleuui of tin, aim Z'lfsjastlikeaman career 3 Mchenry $o say that his wife can't mak m 8*od bread as his Mother did. OIL! ITT ' the W. In a first class carriage in Germany an Englishman was observed to be con­ stantly putting his head out of the win­ dow. The train was going fast, and a sudden gust of wind blew off his hat. He at once took down his hat box and hurled it after his hat. Then he sat dowi uad sn:!Led on his fellow pas- seni - re. btn. cf course, did not speak. The > Jei reared with laughter, and one or tLem exclaimed: a • - "You do not expect your hat box bring back your hat, do you?" "I do," said the Englishman. "No name on the hat--full name and hotel address on the box. They'll be found together, and I shall get b6th. Do you see now?' Then those Germans subsided and said they always had considered the English a great and practical aation.-- give you the great advantage his mother had, and besides, made with this yeast will bring back his boyhood's ;ring his^njoyment the rest of your coding also. ;•'!;! --'J ii-l- H. Miller & London Tit-Bits. Helen Virginia. A good story is told upon a Washin ton woman who now makes her home Colorado. Witii evidently no thought as to the curious sound of the combina­ tion if spoken quickly, she has called her oldest child Helen Virginia. Not long ago upon a visit to thi« city she proudly brought her young daughter in to see an old friend. "What have you called your daughter?" queried the visitor. "Helen Virginia," was the complacent reply. "All. and what do you call her in Col­ orado?" was the unexpected but very natural response.--Kate Field's Wash- -DKALEHS IN- MAEELE & GEA1OT, lloniiniPiitM, Y*of«<Ta»ton*ai Tableta, (Vmpturv ork of every ex*M uted at the Feather Trimming. Thegteat controversy over ing of feathers is developing oonsiderable heat. There is no appreciable effect yet of the pleas on behalf of the bright plumaged birds. The hat boxes of the Princess of Wales have just been peeped into, and what was seen there may have an important influence on a large num­ ber. On the hats recently made for the princess and her daughters there ave flTany feathers, but we are told there are none except from birds which are used for human food. Most of the hats are or the half Alpine shape, now coming into fashion. One of the neatest contained black cock's tail feathers. 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