"DICK!" CRIED THE WOMAN.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 347, 1 January 1903, Page 6

"DICK!" CRIED THE WOMAN.

otre«t Car Puotcftri G#< * Gllaaaat •* a TomUsk Ruatstt to Armr, Wta.

w&o. looked as if he had just got up from a severe fit of illness boarded a Madison avenue car in Forty-second *ftfew the other afternoon and sat down opposite a pretty girl. lie carried a bag that seemed a big load - f«»r hint and he apparently didn't novk;e the girl until he had leaned buck in his seat after arranging the bag under his leg*, says the New York Sun. Then swiftly he sat upright again and looked a'little alarmed," like a man who is not sure of himself after the visions of fever. In a moment, howeverv the -alarm was gone and he ■tared at her in a way that reminded >ou of.a thirsty man drinking.water. The girl couldn't help but feei his gaze a$A. turned her eyes to him coldly and then looked coldly away. A mere, ghost of, color showed in the young man's cheek. Then he smiled continued to stare at the young woman with so much fervor that! she finally turned her faee toward him again with a little flirt of annoyance. The young man, apparently, was «iuite shameless. H.« met her eyes squarely. She lowered them and began, to took him over with disdain, lie laughed, again, foolishly. Near-by passengers showed that they shared the young woman's indignation by this time, but he was such a scarecrow of a man that their wonder was perhaps stronger than their anger. The young woman's eyes traveled witheringly from his head to his feet and then started on the return jonrr ney. There is no treatment mora blighting to. a masher than this. The ■caret-row fidgeted uuder the gaze and laid his bands nervously on his knees.. On one of the fingers of the left hand was a curiously chased gold ring. It was so loose that it looked as if it would surely fall oft* were the young man to hold his fingers downward! The ring caught the girl's eyes in passing, and the eyes widened suddenly, then flashed from the ring to the young man's face and back again. The scarecrow smiled once more, foolishly, but there was a curious mist in bis eyes. The pretty girl gazed for an instant into his face exactly as he had been gazing at her. "Dick!" said thej>retty girl. It would take too many columns to tell all she said in the word, but ber fore it was quite out she was sitting beside him and had the hand with the ring on it. The rest of the passengers didn't seem to count. "Transport, San; Francisco, last week. Tried a surprise. Hospital at Cavite, bullet in the chest and side% No sense in frightening the family." "Dick!" said the pretty girL She motioned to the conductor and seised the scarecrow's bag. "Only two years—and you ka. 3 lews gotten. You said— "* , ~ • • "Dick!" r" f And the car went on and toft them standing on tha crossing.

UNITED STATES AND TURKEY.

Ham the Moilcw, Wwt |» Book o«f ■* laflomaMy 4 Claim.

Several yeara ago, when Turkish mobs were murdering; Armenian* in Asia Minor, they looted and burned the buildings of Euphrates college at liar poo t. There was no one to take up the cause of the Armenians; but Euphrates college was an American institution, established by American money and carried on by American missionaries, says * Youth's Companion. The destruction of this property and of similar property at Marash be-' came the basis for a claim for indemnity which the government of the United States immediately brought against.Turkey, and has been pressing ' at intervals ever. sine*. It was a l&~ time before the sultan wst !*•■*" ' ,Jgadmit responsibility, #*-' _ a uced ttf time before &• - ft longer point of p- broug ht to the* %9& . omising payment. But in' orkish scheme of affairs, promise and performancaara oftan a long -way apart. A few weeks ago the battleship Kentucky dropped anchor off Smyrna, and her commander went to Constantinople to visit the American charge d'affaires. .While he was there the long standing account was settled; not directly, but under cover of a contract for building a cruiser in the United States, the missionary claims being figured into the contract price. About this time a new question arose. The Turkish government refused to give its exequatar, or official recognition, to Dr. Norton, whom the United States had appointed consul at Harpoot. If it had objected to him as persona non grata, its objection must have sufficed, and a new consul would have been designated; but its objection was to recognizing any consul there. Turkey is bound by treaty to allow American consulates to be established wherever commerce requires them, but it holds that there is no commerce at Harpoot. It is also bound by treaty to give the United States the same treatment as the ••:»iost favored nation;" and as it has recognized a British consul at ilar- • n-.tot, the American claim for a consul Ihere rests both on treaty and precede nt. . Turkey pursued the same course when the United States commissioned hj consul at Erzeroum, another m:sMnnary and educational center in A-ia Minor, wherelgJsSrge numbers of A rnenians weagjjßtisacrecl. L!nt ;hr .• ;.;.,ul went notwithstanding, and Dr. Norton has gone to Harpoot.