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:~’\¢°w"m~;\.~«..«“.< _ A ~. .. "K .\ ~ .".,_.k x. sW«r-.-«...~..-. - .. tial nature was put an end by . ‘ I V I i Q. I W.__ __ . _‘. 3' O. ' 3 7 0:. 3': o 3 9:0- 0:. g ' 0:0 0:; ' ‘ ‘ 0:. ‘3‘ A STORY or THE DERBY g i 5. I’o .4 c o o 0 o ' o o o o' w; {0 s4. M’QO‘OQOOO go’svsvovxv‘go "I would that to-morrow were over, Haviland.” ' "Aye, Jocelyn, toâ€"morrow is big with fate. If I could only move the curtain and D0013 behind the scenes! Fate must Surely Pity “5 and give us a kind smile. It Was bad enongh' to succeed to a barren title and heavilyâ€"encumbered estates so drained that I can-not expect a penny from them for at least ten years; but for the happiness Of our two lives to depend upon Bright Days:â€"â€"â€"” "The finest horse ever foaled.” "He is that, Jocelyn.” “And with Seymour to ride him.” "lie stands a big chance, my darâ€" ling; but we must not forget that Seylmour is young and has never yet ridden in the Derby.” "But he rides toâ€"morrow for his sister’s happiness and the Darley honor.” "And both are as dear to me as my own life. If he wins with Bright Days I gain» a small fortune and the lifelong companionship of the dearest girl in all the world.” “Andâ€"and if he loses’?” “We must bow to the .inevitable, dear one, and part for a time. ‘ I must leave my estates to work thornâ€" selves free. while I try my fortuzies abroad. You wil‘. wait, Jocelyn?" "Can you aSk, I-Iaviland?" "I ask because it is sweet to re- ceivc your assurances. Ah! here is Seymour with Captain Lucas.” "I could wish that Captain Lucas and my brother were not so friend- ly,” answored Jocelyn. "Why? Do you doubt him?” “I do not know, but Seymour seems changed lately, and I some- times fancy there is a hunted look in his eyes, especially when. Captain Lucas is about.” "Perhaps it JOCClyn.” ' Further conversation of a confidenâ€" the appearance of Captain Limes and the rising young jockey, Seymour Darley. .‘ Seymour and Jocelyn wore the twin children of old John D-arley, the wellâ€"known trainer, whose hopes for the coming Derby were centred upon Sir Havilaud Paignton’s horse, Bright Days. » The brother and sister were very much alike, and Jocelyn seemed to take a delight in accentuating the resemblance by wearing her hair in short, crisp curls in. imitation of her brother. Sir Haviland Paignton met Joceâ€" lyn soon after his succession to the heavily encumbered estates of his uncle, and despite the rivalry of Captain Lucas he quickly had the satisfaction of learning that the of- fection which he immediately conâ€" ceived for her was reciprocated. "’Well, Seymour, feeling fit for to- m orrow?’ ’ ' "Yes, Sir I-Iaviland; and if the horse is only as wellâ€"” ' I “Do you really imagine that Bright Days is going to win?” asked Lucas. “I do,” answered Sir I-l’aviland; "and, what is more, I have backed my confidence to a considerable ex- ~tent.” c ' "Well, every man to his fancy, and my fancy is The Falcon,” answered Lucas. "'l'oâ€"morrow will show the result. I Should like a word with you, Sey- mour.” _ . As Sir II-avilan-d and Seymour drew away, ‘Captain Lucas approached Jocelyn. “And so all your hopes are centred upon Bright Days toâ€"m‘orrow,- eh?” “Yes, 'his, success will mean so many bright. days for me.” "And is your happiness to rest un- on the stamina of a horse and the ability of a jockey? Think well what you are choosing‘," Jocelyn. I have offered you my. love, a comfor- table home, and a fair income. Will you throw these away for the sake of an aristocratic pauper?” "You have no right to talk to me like this. I love Sir I-laviland, and will marry him even if I have to work.” "Of which there is every prospect,” sneer-ed Captain Lucas; ‘for I can tell you this, that Bright Days, good horse as he is. will never win the Derby, and toâ€"morrow your aris~ tocratic lover will find himself more of a pauper than- he is now.” "I cannot listen toâ€"” “One moment. You ought to know by this time that I am a, man not easily beaten, and I will speak again. Perhaps after toâ€"morrow, when you realize the penm'y to which you will be condemned, you will think more favorably of one whose .only ambiâ€" tion is your welfare. Until-then I is only your fancy, am hopeful.” - .. He spoke with such confidence 0 the downfall of Bright Days that Jocelyn felt there was more in his words than she could fathom, and she. determined to question Seymour at. the first opportunity. “Come up to my den, Seymour; I want to have a talk with you.” "All right, sis; I’ll be up in a min- ute." And a few minutes later when he Went upstairsg he found l J OCelyn clothes. Qo:~s-:Wo:“~:o§o:o":v\o:o‘o:o§0:w0:0~ treating form of Sir Haviland Paign- ton. “Anything wrong, sis?” "That is the question I want to ask you, Seymour. A'i‘e things well with you?” “Why do you aSk?” And as he spoke Jocelyn noticed that he turned his head away and aVoidcd her questioning eyes. “I ask because you are troubled, old boy. You are not the dear old Seymour that you us-ed to be. I have noticed that Captain Lucas never leaves you for an instant, and there is a frightened look in your eyes whenever he is near. Ah! Sey- mour, toâ€"morrow means so much; tell me, lad, is' anything wrong?” Then, to her surprise, Seymour threw his arms on the table in nu agony of doflmir, and his frame shock with heavy sobs. "Oh, Seymour, what is it? me, old boy, tell me!” "1â€"1 am ruined, sis; ruined.” "Ah! no, Seymour, don’t say that, dear lad; tell me all. Is itâ€"is it Captain Lucas?” “Yes. Iâ€"I owe him money." "Go on, Seymour; there is some- thing more; tell me all.” “It happened about a, month ago. I was in London with Captain. Lucas and he invited me to his club. There was a lot of card-playing going on, and I was invited to take a hand with Captain Lucas and a. couple of his friends. The stakes were pretty heavy, and at first I Won steadily. After I had won about a hundred pounds they proposed to double the stakes. and being the winner I could not refuse.” "Yes, yes; go on.‘ V"And then my luck changed and I began to lose, and when the club closed I found myself something like two hundred and fifty pounds in debt. Then one of Lucas’s friends proposed that we should adjourn to his rooms, where I could have my revenge. Like a fool I consented.” "An-d then?” "I won a little and again. We played until daylight, and then Abrahams, the man I lost the money to, said that he’d had enough, and offered to cut me double or quits; the lowest cut to win. Whe- ther they tampered with the wine or not I can’t say, but I completely lost my head and consented. I cut a ten and Abrahums cut the deuce. I OWed him seven hundred pounds.” “Oh, Seymour!” ' .“Ayc, I was a fool, but that is not the worst of my folly. I only had fifty pounds in the world, and I signed a billiforr-six hundred and rift/y", ' i' " '- / "But you can never pav it; SOY- mour. d‘h‘c bill is a debt of honor, and Abrahams must wait. I will help you all I can, old boy, and I am sure Sir Ilavilandâ€"” 0' "Ah! but you haven’t heard the Worst yet. The-name on the billâ€"” (li7es?n "Is not mine." “Seymour!” "Yes; Abrahams would not: take my n-anne, but offered to accept the bill if it was signed 'John ’Darley.’ ” “Not dad's name?” - “Yes. I refused at first, and there was some .sort of a row. I was dazed and stupcfied. All I remember is that Captain Lucas urged me to Sign, and he Would redeem the bill himself as soon as the bank opened. I signer], and Lucas has the bill.” "Then you need not worry; itâ€"â€"" "Ah! you don't understand. I am to ride Bright Days in the'Derby toâ€" morrow, and Captain Lucas has plunged heavily on The Falcon. You know that nobody but myself can ride our candidate; he will not stir an inch with a stranger on his back.” - . "Yes, yes, I know; but; with you up there is nothing in the field to touch him.” “Jocelyn, if I attempt to leave here for Epsom, Captain Lucas will innnediately present that bill to dad and "demand paymentz” “Impossible ! ’ ’ "It is a, vile plot, sis, and I am in the toils. The Darl-cy stables have done so badly lately that. I know dad hasn’t got the money, even if he would pay it. P‘ld he would never forgive me. . Lif'jds’s plan is this: To-night at ten o’clock ,I am to take a Walk, and when I reach the end of the lane I am to be kid- napped and kept "priSOner until three o'clock to-mOI‘FOW.” “And miss the Derby! 0h, Sey- mour, you unust ri5k all and win that race, whatever the consequenc- es ” ' Tell I then lost “The house is.Watched at every point, and I am assured that even if I got away I should be knocked on the head before I reached Epsom. These men are desperate.” "And if you consent to the napping?” "At three o’clock to-morrow the bill is to be handed to me and I am to be released. I am then to come back and spread the story of my adventure.” "And this is the work of Japtain Lucas. Seymour, old boy, pluck up and leaveihis to me. We will out- wit him yet.” "But how? Would that I could!" "I have a plan. Listen. In half an hour the trap comes round to drive me to the station. I am going to spend the night with Lady Marâ€" tin, and drive to the races on her coach to-morrow. Come into my room. ’l'here is my travelling dress all laid out. Get into it as quickly as possible and throw me out your Ve must change places for lid (1-- emming across the garden at the reâ€" a time, as we have often done for fun. Quick as you can, and don't say a, word. I will plan the rest while you are dressing." Quickly grasping her meaning, Sey- mour set to work and in a few minâ€" utes was ul'CSS'Cd in J ocelyn’s clothes and a little later Jocelyn appeared in Seymour’s. “That is capitalâ€"capital! I defy anyone to tell the difference. Now pack. your colors in the bag with my initials 011. Be guick; 1 can hear the trap. Throw in a spare suit and change in the train. Go straight to Epsom, and keep in seclusion until the racing starts.” “But Captain Lucas?” "Leave him to me, and go with a light heart. Come back as soon as you can, and I will have your bill. I trust you and Bright Days to win the Derby, and you must trust me to uphold the Darley honor.” The trap ‘Was standing at the door and Captain Lucas was talking. to the groom.‘ As Seymour appeared the Captain handed him into the ve- hicle and placed Jocelyn’s bag beâ€" side him. W-hcn all was ready to start he seized the opportunity to whisperzâ€" “' "At this time toâ€"morrow I will again ask you to marry me. In. the meantime think over the disadvantâ€" ages of being ‘my lady’ with an empty larder.” ' Seymour could not trust himself to Speak; he simply nodded, and, with a, wave of his hand to Jocelyn, set off tOWards the station. - perched on the back of her head, faced Captain Lucas unflinchingly. She had too often tested her dis- guise in pure sport to fear discovery but it. was an anxious moment when .he turned his gaze upon her. “Well, the old man is- at Epsom with the gee-gee, Paignton has gone to his aristocratic casual ward, and Jocelyn is out of the way. Every- thing works Well for our project, youngster.” “Your project.” "Well, mine, if you like. Come, Seymour, don’t be a. fool. Which would you preferâ€"your bill back and your father’s respect, or the inside of a jail and ruin?” "You will keep your part of the bargain?” "The bill Swill be handed to you at three o'clock to-morrow, and be- sides this I have put twenty pounds on The Falcon for you at tens. Oh! you will have very comfortable quar- ters toâ€"night, with good grub and plenty of wine, but take my advice and don't try any tricks; my men are not too particular. I am glad you are beginning to see reason, youngster; I don’t want my brother- inâ€"law to be a jailâ€"bird.” “Your ln‘ofher-inâ€"law?” "That’s about the size of it With Bright; Days left an the post Paignton will be ruined, and I am going to marry the pretty Jocelyn." “I will offer you my congratula- tionsâ€"after the ceremony.” “Thanks. Now, don’t forget ten o'clock toâ€"night at the end of the lane. I may be somewhere in this neighborhood when you return home toâ€"morrowâ€"dirt‘y, ragged, and exâ€" hausted.” Fully determined to carry out her part of the programme, Jocelyn made her way down the lane at the time stipulated.’ She had not gone very far when she was seized by two men and hoisted into a waiting ve- hicle. After half an hour’s rapid driving they pulled up at an old, forbiddingâ€"looking house, which they forced her to enter. Here, at a sumptuously-laid table, sat a short, fat man with a, hooked nose, and the fingers of whose podgy hands \verc ablaze with diamonds. “Velcomc, my young friendt, vel- come; ve meet again. Captain Lucas toldt me to egspegt you. Vill you sup, eh? andt a game of cardts {liter eh?” “Thank. you. *I don’t care your company this evening.” “Ah! you misdrust your Abra- hams, ehl'.’ Ah! veil, as youvill'. The game is Vifh me. I vill show you your ' room. an’ if you be a goof; boy toâ€"morrow 'I vil] gif you a piece of paper. But if you become naughtyâ€"ah ! ’ ’ Abrahams pressed his throat with a fat finger and thumb irf a signifi- cant manner, and then led the way upstairs. The room was small but clean, and the window was barred. As the door was locked behind Joce- lyn threw himself upon the bed, and abo u t lay awake through the long hours of the night listening to the high carousal of the watchers below. When morning dawned in fill its glory Jocelyn thought regretfully of the Epsom racecourse and the ex- citing struggle for the Blue Riband. She would have given much to witâ€" ness the triumph of Bright Days. Abrah-ams brought up breakfast and offered to keep her company dur- ing the remainder of the day, but Jocelyn prefer ed to be‘alone, did not see him again until o’clock. "Veil, mine frien‘dt, you haf been a, goot boy, and I gif you the piece of paper mit y- t... vadc‘r's- name on, and don’t be so voolish again. Now, 1 viii tear your coat some, and gut; some mud on it, and make a show of a big struggle, and then you can go and gif min-e respects to our goot friendt Captain Lucas." Half an hour later tors set Jocelyn couple of mil-s vf with Feymom’s bill safely in her pocket she ivalkcd on with a light heart. True to his word, Captain Lucas was waiting near the house. three the con-spira- down. within a her home, and Then Jocelyn, with Seymour's cap , and 6 “Well, youngster, got back the terrible adventure' you look as if deadly struggle." “Yes; Abrahams set-ms to be a pretty fair artist in crime.” "Well, it’s all over now. You got the paper? Goad. 'l he noble Sir IIa_\'ilaii(l will know his fate by now, and the Ipretty Joclyn will be plunged in despair." “Have you got the result?” “No; but I expect a telegram any minute.” They moved on into the hOuse and Jocelyn, utterly exhausted, sank down on a couch. “There will be a rare toâ€"do at Epâ€" som when they miss you. We must have the tale all pitâ€"pat. Halloa! ,Who’s this tearing along on horse- from By George! you had been in a back? I’m hanged if it isn’t Sir I-faviland I’aignton. Now, leave this to me, youngster. Lie down as if exhausted and I’ll pitch the tale.” Sir Haviland Paignton' (lashed up to the door, leaped off his horse, and rushed into the house. As he en- tered the room Lucas held up a warning hand. I “Quietly, Sir Havilan'd; quietly. There is a, terrible business here; I was just about to send for a doctor. Our friend, Seymour, was seized by some ruflians last night and kept a prisoue‘r until an hour ago. .It is a most dastardly affair, and I fear that it is a villainous attempt to prevent Bright Days winning the Derby. I am sorry for you, .Sir I-Iavilan-(l;' very sorry.” ' Sir IIavilanld looked from the prosâ€" t'rate figure on the couch to Captain Lucas,- and was about to speak, when a servant handed in a tele- gram. “I will accept your expressions of sorrow when I know the result of the. raca. Here is a wire from the course’â€" " ’Bright Hurrah lâ€"Seymour. “Seymour?” ejaculated Lucas. There was a low, rippling laugh from the couch, and Jocelyn, spring;- ing up, threw her arms around her lover's neck. "Jocelyn! ‘ ‘ Jocelyn! asked Lucas. "It means, sir, that your dastard- ly plob has failed. Seymour con- fided in Jocelyn, and the two ex- changed clothes. Seymour told me all this morning, and I hurried back as quickly as possible. You have that bill, Jocelyn?” - "Yes; it is here.” "And now, sir, I have just a 1‘ew words to say to you. I shall im~ mediately report your conduct to the stewards of the Jockey Clue, and within a very few hours you will find yourself warned off every race- course in England; and if you will take my advice you will at once ro- sign your commission in the Army, and thereby save His Majesty the trouble of intimating that he no Days won in a cantor. In '7’ My brave darling What does this mean?” longer requires your services. Now go.” With a muttered threat Captain Lucas slunk out like a whipped hound. “Ah, Jocelyn, my brave love, what you must have gone through!” “It is nothing, Havilan-d, nothing. I would willineg go through it all again for the sake of our love and the Darley honor.”-â€"-Lon-don Titâ€" Bits. ' _.+______. ODD EXPERIMENT. A Garden City in the Suburbs of- . London. In the suburbs of London, Eng- land, a. few miles away from- Ilitâ€" chin, is being built a model town called "The Garden City.” Already it has been considered necâ€" essary to form an T'open space,” and Mr. C. E. Osman, the deputy mas- ter, and several members of the Carâ€" de-ners’ Company traveled down from London for the ceremony of inaugurâ€" ation. The piece of ground chosen for the park is Well Wooded, and a. little st'rea'm flowing through it has been induced to form: picturesque lakes. Mr. Osman in declaring it open gave it the name of Howard Park, in memory of the late wife of Mr. Howard, the author of the “Garden City” idea. The city itself is in a fair way to materialize. A1- ready it has waterworks, constructâ€" ed at a. cost of $60,000, and a sewer- age system, while its gas works will be at work about m‘idsummcr. Thanks partly to the labors- of some 400 of the London unemployed, it has about four miles of wellâ€"made road. The present population num- bers about 1,000, and already has provided itself with gold links. At present a number of buildings in various materials are being erectâ€" ed for the cheap cottage system ex- hibition to be held this summer, which it is hoped will solve for the landâ€"owner the problem of how a comfortable cottage can be construct- ed for about One very inter~ esting experiment is to be tried shortly. '1‘w0 small houses, with a common kitchen, are being construct- ed. The economy of space in such an arrangement needs no such emâ€" phasis, and if two housewives can work at. the same stove in peace and goodâ€"will the experiment should suc- ceed. If it does, a blocâ€"" of three houses with common kitchens will be tried. Some progress in these arrange- ments may be made tOWards a com- mon men]. It is not contemplated that families should (line together, but that while each has its own meal THE WEATHER north? TELLS WHY MISTAKES SOMZE'» TIMES OCCUR. -â€"â€" Deals Only in Generalities Allows Broad Margin for and. Error. A correspondent wishes to linour why weather prophecy cannot be" made mathematically exact. He- thinks that if an astronomer can. predict an eclipse a century ahead. within a second or two of the exact time, a meteorologist should be able at least to foretell a storm a day in advance,. within an hour of the moment of its occurrence, writes Garw rett 1’. Serviss of the U. S. Weather Bureau. But the tronble with weather pro~- phecy is that it does not deal, like; astronomy, with solid bodies moving: in ascertained orbits, at known rates of speed and under the control. of simple laws. It is fundamentally as easy to foretell an eclipse as to say where an express train, traveling at unvarying speed, will be at any particular hour of its schedule. In fact, the astronomer has a great adâ€"- vantage in this respect, for the bodies whose motions he deals with meet with no accidents, get no hot boxes and have no delayed connec- tions to make. The weather prophet, on the other“ hand, deals with an ocean of air, on- closing the solid globe of the earth. and subject to a hundred varying: forces and influences, to foresee all of whose effects would need PRACTICAL OMNISCIENCE. The sun heats the air over that part. of the earth where it happens at the‘ moment to be shining, and the heatâ€"- ed air expands and rises, and the commotion extends in one way or‘ another to the air OVer other parts of the globe. Since half of the tinâ€"- tire mass of the atmosphere is com-A pressed by gravitation below the level of the highest mountain peaks and since the earth’s surface, except Where the seas lie, is broken by many‘ lofty ranges of mountains and many elevated plateaus, the air currents which flow over the earth in conse- quence of the disturbances created by the sun’s rays are diverted by the irâ€" regularities of the surface beneath. Then moisture arises from the seas under the influence of the sun and charges the air with clouds, and the moisture and the clouds in turn in- terfere with the distribution of the- heat and consequently with the direc- tion and strength of the aerial cur- rents. ‘ All this while the earth is swiftly rotating on -its axis, so that the parts of its surface exposed to the- sun’s rays are continually changing and air currents travelling north or‘ south are shifted east or west, rela- tively to the surface over which they pass, and thus additional complexiâ€" ities are introduced in the atmosâ€" pheric circulation. Moreover, as a result of the inclination of the earth’s plane in which it revolves about the sun, the position of the latter in the sky is never exactly the same two days in succession. From the 22nd of December until the 21st. of June the sun rises higher above the southern horizon every day, and from the 215t of June to the 22nd of December it gradually sinks again TOWARD THE SOUTH. and thus the whole system of the. solar influences upon the atmosphere- shifts slowly north and south across the equator as the median line. Yet again, the earth’s orbit is an clipse, and in midWinter we are car- ried three million miles nearer the sun than we were in midsummer, and this change of distance causes an alâ€" ternate increese and decrease in the total amount of solar heat received per day by the earth. Add to this the fact that evidence is accumulating that the sun itself is not perfectly regular in its outgiv- ing of radiant energy, and we have enough, without" Seeking any further causes of variability, .to show that weather prophecy must always reâ€"- main a very uncertain branch of in- tellectual exercise. Usually it can only deal with generalities. Even the prediction of the arrival at any particular point of a great storm. known to be crossing the country is. frequently falsified through some un- foreseen influence acting upon the at~ mosphere. The more genuinely scien- tific the basis on .which a weather prophet rests his calculations the more ready he will be to admit that there is a broad margin of error to be allowed, for, and the less certain he will feel, on finding one of his predictions fully verified that he has discovered the great secret of the weather. ._____.+..___... " HIS ONLY WORRY. "It’s 'de impotant queshtions uv do (lay wot worries me,” said the hobo. "Important questions of the day!"- echoed the well-fed citizen. “Dat’s wot I sod,” continued the unpac'ed globe trotter, “meanin’ where’ll I git sumthin’ ter eat an" where’ll I sleep. See?” ' “He pretends to loVe music, but he never asks me to sing." “Pei;â€" . . . , haps that’s his way of provmg it. - _____________________________.â€" ~.â€"._â€"..â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"'_' take of a dish belonging to the other. and vice versa.‘ Thus, a. greater variety in the menu may be obtained. Whether these devices will be successful is, however, a matter for the future. The schemes are merely incidental, and not part of the enterprise, but'tlm new city ofâ€" fers a most favorable field for this a member of one family may par- and other experiments.