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P ♦ o ■ST how to make allowance», ax you mlgui heard what »<-emed like • liurih a ii ■ COST OF HONEYMOONS «W SHORT STORIES DIVERS AfTcn FLARLS say. for some of bis xing'lar behavior. blow in' ui li up In the air; but. though Their Work 1» Deadly, and They Sometimes after xup|»*r he'd set for I look«! Mt- in the sky. I coll Ida t sis- When Mr. BiWrll -Talked." Do .Not Live Long. hours, not replyin’ to things I'd ask nothin' to account for II* sound, an' I HOW THOSE SPENT IN WASHINGTON The lute Wilson 8. Bissell was a Fearl fislc-ra do not live long They MAY VARY IN EXPENSE. him. but talkiu' In a low mutter to just xtopix-d short where 1 was. wou lose friend of Ftvsident develaud. and often dive to « depth of 100 feet or himself, lookin' off over the desert like delin'. Then, off toward« the butte when he was a member of the cabinet more, and the strain wears them out be was gazin' at somethin' miles nn' which 1 was heudii' for, 1 could see at •«WeBroou«, «• • tule, Are He- the president talked very frankly with before their lives are half over. From By Edmund Stuart Roche • mile« away. Then gen'rally, about th - first ten« an’ then right way» hundreds ••rfflean of the I’rlee uf Thins» »■ him and often at him when be was these depths a diver usually bring» full of the moon, lie'd cook up mes of little wavin' columns of Sand, each « W-ldal Tour»— How $300 a Da> Ha» 0 ready criticism: some other member of two oyster shells eueb “trip." It is on of desert herbs an' bottle up tlie Juice - one in a whirl, growin' all the time • "i iiriuht, r ' -i'bu f.'hnuiid >tuait Ri*h> 4 •pe»t >• • Hotel la lhe Capital. from 'em. an' when I'd inquire what higher an' higher an' bigger an' reelin' the cabinet. Among other things which the mother of pearl in these that the Why 1» it that so many bridal cou the president did not like were cabinet Europeuu depends for bls sure profit. he was tryln’ to get at he'd Just give a on towards me. Then the sand whirls, ples come to Washington to spi-ml their biterview ». aipl one day he express«! Fearls are "plums,” which only oecu- HE little party nl>out Calkin«' low chuckle way down in Ids throat which first along Just Jostled each oth •lonally fall to his lot. Divers work camp tire consisted of the The an’ stare at me wlt'^ut sayin’ nothin', er, all Joined together an’ came sweep honeymoons? Perhaps the question can his mind freely ui>on the subject, say for a wage, and all the shells brought and that was all I'd ever get out of in' on in a swayin' wall like waves on not be satisfactorily answered, but the osophist, a dried up little man ing that the constant interviews with up are the property of the 'employer. with pinched feature« and a him. He had a dirty lookin' old b<K>k. a beach. Blasts of hot. witherin' wind fact remains that the capital is a great cabinet officers In the public press on In “Studies In Brown Humanity'' bound In spotted, black leather, with pareh«l the air, an ’ deep clouds of dust Mecca for the newly Wedded. Some waxy complexion, the old lady with the ali sorts of trivial subjects were undig Hugh Clifford describes Malay pearl black mitts and myself. The Tbeoso- curious hsikin' writln' on the ynller spread over the sky like a curtain an' people say that it is because Washing pages, like I'd never seen before, tluM blurred out the sun. Then It grew ton 1» restful and that at this one pe nified. The day this lecture took place IlHher». They anchor on the oyster phist hail been discoursing <>X occult latls or as near them as possible, be matter» in general, as was usual with he set a heap by. He'd get this old dusk, an' close all round me I could riod In their lives men and women do a newspaper man bad Interviewed Bis •ays. and the diving takes place twice book out an' read it by the fire of an hear the same sound of flappin' an' sell about affairs In the postotHce de not care for bustle. They want to be him when a patient audience was avail • day. able, and had but Juxt concluded a lit evenin' for an hour at a time, an’ then rustlin' I bad heard that night by the able t<*> devote some thought to each partment and hail prepared a very good “All the boats are manned at morn he'd take a stick an' draw queer fig fire, an' low chucklin ’ sounds like luna- other without fear of personal acci story, using quotation marks freely. tie dissertation on the nature of ele ing and evening, and the Sulu boys row mental«, "those strange, almost un gers on the sand, triangles, circles an' tics laughin', an' strange blammerlu' dent. Whatever the reason, the fact 1 here was not much in the interview, them out to the point selected for the known, creatures of the astral light,” such like, lookin’ at the book now an voices, an’ mixed In with them ull the remains that the annual influx of brides no subject of Importance, and it ap day's operations. The white man In then, like he was follerin' some par shrill sound of Fete's, like he was there and grooms amounts to at least 20,000 as he expressed it. peared In different papers under head charge always goes with them in order Calkins had been listening with th« tic'lar directions, an' mumblin’ to him flyin' round in the air with them other persons. to keep an eye upon the shells, to resus self in a sort of singsong way all the invls'ble Jays an' enjoyin' the circus. The munager of one of the hotels of lines such as “Interview With the F. deepest interest and remarked con citate exhaust«l divers and generally M. G., ” “ Discussed by Bissell, ” “ Mr. time. “ All this had come on In less time the city was asked in regard to the ex fldentially to the old lady with th« to lisik after his own interests. “One mornin’ when I was startin’ out than tt takes me to tell it. An' talk penses of a honeymoon. Bissell Talks,” etc. black mitts, "The less you an’ me, "Fresently a man lowers himself The uext day a dozen messengers In “Is a honeymoon In Washington too ma'am, an’ these here gen'lemen or for the shaft Pete made excuse alxiul about stampedin’ an’ panics! I was slowly over the side, takes a long, deep him not feelln' up to work, sayin ’ he'd that panic struck an' Beared clean formed the Interviewer that the ¡s>st- expensive for a man with a moderate any one has to do with them there slip slept bad an’ I'd have to run things by through an' through that I Just tore salary,” the reporter asked, “or can It master general wanted to see him. breath, and then, turning head down pery bein's the better for ’em!” myself at the claim that day an' he'd back to camp like h—1 was let loose be be reduced to an economical basis with When he entered the office he found ward, swims Into the depths, his limbs "You don’t really mean to say, Mr showing dimly In froglike motions un hold on lit the camp an' rest up. 1 Calkins, that you have personally laid stayed on at the work later’n common, hind me. askin’ your pardon, ma'am, out displaying the limitations of the that official In a state of frenzy. Ills til, If the water be very deep, he is for that manner of speakin ’ . My bur bridegroom's purse should be happen to any knowledge of those marvelous be large face was red with excitement completely lost to sight. an’ it was after sundown before ever 1 ings of whom my brother lias Juxt spo starti-d on back. The moon was full ros was there, standin’ close side by be of the less wealthy class?” “In a few minutes he comes into and passion. side, with their noses together, an' “ That question need not be a vexed ken!” exclaimed the old lady, pausing an* shinin' bright In a clear sky, an' It “What do you mean,” he shouted, view again, his face straining upward, tremblin'. Half blind with the sand one, ” replied the affable manager. “ A in her knitting, with open mouthed as yearning with extended neck for the was deathly still all aliout, except for honeymoon In Washington can be as “by Interviewing me? What did you air that he now needs so sorely. His tonishment. the sound of me shuttlin' on through put me in quotation murks for? Don't costly as the purse can buy or It can be “F’r’aps not. ma’am. Maybe I’ve mis the sand. I could see a fire at camp an' hands cleave the water in strong down spent on an amazingly small amount, if yon know that cabinet officers must ward strokes; his form grows momen took the kind of tieln's the gen'leman Pete movin' round an’ bondin' over you will, of course, consider the luxury not be quoted?" And much more to was referrin’ to. P’r’aps I’m all wrong,” now an’ then, an’ I put it up as he was tarily more distinct, until the fixed, afford«! by our modern hotels. the same effect. responded Calkins. I’ll give you the hurryin’ round gettln’ the bacon an’ tense expression of his staring face Is “ At this moment I have in mind a story of my slng'lar meetin’ with ’em, coffee ready. But when I'd climbed up When the newspaper man got a plainly visible. Then the quiet surface man from Chicago who brought his chance be asked If there had been n of the sea splashes in a thousand drops an’ then you can Judge about the whole the little slope to camp I seen right bride here on their wedding trip. Their misquotation and received a negative of sun steep«l light as Ids head tears thing for yourself, ma'am! away I'd mistook what was oceupyin' living expenses amounted to something reply. "Why, I was fixing up a little through It. and his bursting lungs, ex "Ten years ago come July I was him an' that he hadn’t struck a lick to like $300 a day, that amount being story for your benefit,” the Journalist pelling the imprisoned air. draw in tlie work In’ in off the desert from a pros ward gettln' supper, but was Just boil spent In the hotel. But, then,” the said. “I thought you would want breath which they crave In long, bard pectin’ trip south an’ east of the Carga in’ weeds an' things in the big kettle manager added, “this man had an al people to know that you were a mem gasps. If the dive has been a deep one Muchacha country, where I'd been over the fire, lookin’ wild eyed an' mut most unquenchable thirst for rare old ber of the cabinet and attending to a little blood may be seen to trickle stumpin' about chippin' rock all the terin' to himself like he always did wines and things In season and out of business. Now. really, general, you from nose and mouth and eurs. At spring without strikin’ anything that when he had one of them spells on. season. But there is just one thing I ought to feel flattered.” 'd anyways do to tie to. My provisions His black book was layln’ open on a times even the eye sockets oozi- blood, wish to say In connection with the “Oh, I know there's uo harm in it, the result of fearful pressure to which had about give out. It was growin’ too flat rock by the fire, an’ every now an’ American bridegroom. I cannot recall and you meant well, but I must not be the diver has been subjected.” hot to work, an’ the water was gettin' then he’d look at It an' then drop a one Instance where the quality does quoted or Interviewed. Cabinet off! low in the tanks, so I'd give it up for pinch of somethin’ Into the kettle. He not hold good, be he a man of wealth cers must not talk. And look at the that year an' was coalin' in to potter was so took up with bls work that lie CHILDREN ARE SANE. or one of modest Income. He never headlines," lie continued, flourishing a round about a little dry ranch I owned didn't seem to know that I'd got back questions the price of things. This paper. "‘Mr. Bissell Talks,' blankety near the Duarte. I was travelin’ by to camp an' didn't make no answer But Grownup People, Mont of Them, even proves true concerning the en blank it!” peaks an’ a little pocket compass, by when I asked what was up. Seeln’ Are More or Leaa Innnne, gagement of our apartments. He night mostly, on account of the heat, how he was occupied. I reckoned I'd The newspaper man could stand It There is one disadvantage which is spends his money generously and with an’ the country I was goln’ through best not dixturb him an' so lighted a no longer and laughed outright, and Involved in the very nature of educa out consultation. was new to me. I’d been five days fire for myself a little ways off from finally the good natured Bissell Joined tion—that Is, that we have to assume “I remember we bad as guests at him, although he was still far from makin' seventy mile an’ had that many where he was doin' bls fool boilin' an' the same time with our $300 a day pleased. The Interview and the bead that grownup people are representa more to get over before ever I'd strike experimentin’. I was turnin' away to couple a newly wedded pair from New lines, coming on the heels of the Cleve tive. We have even to go the length ‘French Joe’s,’ the nearest place where fetch the coffeepot an' fryln' pan when England. Their dally expenses were land lecture aliout cabinet officers talk of assuming that grownup people are there was any white man reg'larly liv Pete screeched out: ’I’ve got it! Mein $10. Now, using these figures, which ing too much, had greatly disturbed sane. When we talk about encouraging in’, so far as I then knew. This waS He < inplicd the ore »ack. Gott, I’ve got it!’ He was dancin' are entirely accurate, one can quickly him. He was apparently the first man health in children and discouraging why I was kind of surprised when we morbidity, wbeu we talk of such and round the Are like a wild man, wavin’ an' my heart bumpin’ hard, my breath see that luxurious living—It can be was windin’ up the sixth night's trav- such a child being abnormal or inter alsiut gone an' my head in a whirl, I purchased for the latter amount—Is not to violate the new Instructions. elln’, it bein' Just before sunup, to see his arms in the air, snappin’ his Angers esting or neurotic or u genius, we are had Just one clean cut idea left, which so frightfully expensive as our out of smoke rlsln' from n little granite butte an’ all the time half slngln' to himself. all the time taking for granted that we was that the sooner I got out of that town friends picture. Really the “ 1 felt that somethin ’ startlin ’ was lie Took It Qulerly. about a mile ahead nn’ a figure movin' there part of the country, away from amount of money to be spent is more a John Morley in his life of Gladstone ourselves have attained to what is round a camp fire. When 1 was a few cornin' off just then an’ there. The stuff in the kettle was bissin' an’ snap Fete an' his invls'ble pards with the matter of taste than the condition of tells how the latter received bls first profitable and eternal In human nature. pin' an’ sendin’ up silvery sparkles, an' wings, the safer I'd be. I felt, as you one’s purse.” Invitation from Queen Victoria to form But there Is at least something that a thin blue column like mist rose up might say. out of my el'ment somehow At this Juncture the manager reach a ministry. It was In 18(58. He writes: may reasonably be said upon the other from the top, wavin’ Into the air an’ with such like surroundin's. I bridled ed and threw open the door of the “On the afternoon of Dec. 1 be received side. It may at least very plausibly growin’ all the time higher an' bigger a burro, threw on an' cinched up my state bridal suit, displaying a verita at Hawarden the communication from be maintained that It Is children wbc an' kind of fakin' form as It rose. Then saddle in lesx'n a minute, snatched up ble glimpse of fairyland. This cham Windsor. T was standing by him,’ are, age after age, sane and reliable came a sound like a swishin’ of great a canteen an’ was off with a short ber Is the most expensive room in the says Mr. Evelyn Ashley, ‘holding his and grownup people who are, age aft er age, more or less fantastic and dis wings Jhrough the air all about us, an' pitchin' lope, not much knowln* or car hotel. Its size does not differ materi concerting. The great majority of you could feel the cold draft they made in’ which way I. was travelin’. The ally from the less elegantly furnished grownup people in any age will be in as the Invisible bein’s they belonged to wind an' the sand an’ the gen'ral rooms, but In magnificence It rivals the all probability slightly insane; for since swung round the Are. Then all of a whoop up I've spoke of followed me most gorgeous bedchambers of Euro no human philosophy is perfect, and sudden It grew Ice cold, though I stood up for a little time, but died out at last pean palaces. One speedily realizes since every human philosophy natural there close to the blaze, an’, bein' nat when I'd got clean away, an' the sun that to comprehend Its beauty color ly treats itself as If It were perfect, the urally rattled by such golu's on, I just showed up bright once again in a clear temperament becomes a necessity. chances are In every generation that cloudless sky. I had a rough time get toppled over like. Investigation reveals walls of plain the majority of educated people will be “What happened next, of course, I tln' in, but worked on to 'French Joe's' moire damask, the color of which deep ecstatically certain of something that don’t know, but I must have been as an' after restin' there for a day went ens from the faintest shade of shell Is quite untrue. Children, on the other good as stone dead all that night, for on in by slow stages. pink to the rich blush of the rose. This band, it might be maintained, repre “I consulted my lawyer. Colonel Me effect Is continued in the less rich hang the sun was well up when I looked sent the actual primary and untouched about an' found myself layln’ on my V’ey, as to what my rights was undei ings and draperies of the same tints, human nature. Whatever agrees with blankets, with Fete potterin' round the my contract with Fete an’ give him while the carpet reflects the same lines, that is sane; whatever disagrees with Are fryin' bacon. He was powerful the best way I could, the queer facts which become lightened by windows It is eccentric. Children are always cheerful an' gayer'n ever I'd seen him. In the case, but lie wouldn't take no covered with rare old lace. The furni children, or, to limit the matter with but when I got up an' went over to pay for consultin' an’ wouldn’t give me ture Is of Louis XIV. period, the color more precision, babies, at any rate, are where be was cookin' he Just looked no advice, except—which riled me con scheme I b carried out In the upholster always babies. But few will be so up with n grin an’ made no kind of al slderable, him not bein' asked concern Ings of figured damask In dainty floral paradoxical as to maintain that men I'islon to what had gone on nlglit be In' my health an’ bein' no doctor—for designs and scroll effects, while the are always men or women always wo fore. After breakfast he surprised me me to go home an’ rest up for a month four poster bedstead, with Its canopy, men.-- Black and White. considerable by Bayin' that, bein’ as 1 an’ keep out of the sun. is said to be an exact copy of the orlg looked kind of done up. I'd best stny “I’ve never seen ‘Dutch Fete' again, Inal at Cluny, the cost of the bed alone Aii Eloquent Peroration. where I was an’ hold down the camp but I heard of him In less'n a year as being enormous. “And,” said the rising young poll an’ he'd go on up to the shaft by him rollin' In coin an’ gamblin' an' brenkln' “But how do you make the expenses tlclan as be reached bls eloquent pero self. Then he went off hummln’ a tune nil the games wherever he travelisl run up to $300 a day?” inquired the ration, “I predict that our candidate “Then came a sound like a stclahln’ of Just before sundown he showed up Then next I was told he'd been killed reporter. will, when the votes are counted, be ifreat ulnya." again way out on the flat, cornin' in down In Texas. "Quite easily enough. This room, in found to have ridden to success upon from the claim, an' I seen he was trav cluding bath, Is $25 a day. Such guests "Now. I leave you to Judge, ma ’ am. ” hundred yards away, the tall, thin man a tidal wave, of glory that will have elln' slow, with some heavy weight in as occupy an apartment of that sort de concluded Calkins solemnly, “ whether by the tire looked up for the first time, swept all before it like wild fire break an', Beein’ me coinin', he balled me, an’ the ore sack slung over his shoulder I wasn’t right In suggestin’ that I'd mand a private dining room, the latter ing in flying spray upon the strand the sound of his voice brought It right When he got Ids wind after climbin' run against some of them mysteriously ranging in price according to the elab where the sun of victory shall blazi back to me who he was. I'd met him up the steep slope to camp, he told me shadowy bein's the gen'leman was re oration of the room and the table fur forth its most effulgent rays upon the some years before down about Tucson, to fetch out the canvas layln’ under ferrin' to an' that It wa'n’t no ways nishing, say $25 for the dining room a close of one of the most noble, most “MY MISSION IS TO PACIFY IRELAND.” where he'd set himself up for a bad my beddin’ an' he’d show me somethin' desirable to be mixed up In any kind day, and $50 Is disposed of at once. memorable campaigns that have ever worth Beein'. When I'd laid It out near Now, $100 for three meals for two peo of dealin's with ’ em. There's them bur man an' went by the name of ’Dutch the tin*, he emptied the ore sack on to ros broke out of the corral again!” ple is not so much, after all. when price coat on my arm while be in his shirt been launched upon the sea of politics Pete.’ sleeves was wielding an ax to cut down to gather strength and carry all be "He was as ugly to look at as ever I It an’ laughed when he seen my eyes And Galkins left us on what seemed to less wines are served with luncheon and a tree. I'p came a telegraph messen fore It like the cyclone sweeping across dinner. seen a man. He had small black eyes widen out. There was at least two doz me quite an imaginary alarm. ger. He took the telegram, opened it the broad prairies from which even “Game, fruit and vegetables out of “Well. I never!” exclaimed the old close together, a thin, waxy, big lamed en clean gold nuggets of all shapes an' and read It, then handed it to me, the orb of day has disappeared in ter sizes, from ns big as a plum to the size season are worth their weight In gold, lady with the black mitts after draw face an' thick, straight black hair Just speaking only two words, “Very sig ror.” of my fist. I was that took aback at so $100 Is a mere bagatelle. The re Ing a long breath as Calkins departed grizzlin'. He’d bad considerable school nificant,” and at once resumed his in’, so 'twas generally reported, havin’ this showln' that I Jnst couldn't speak I echoed tills somewhat Indefinite aen maining $150 is paid for drawing room, work. The message merely stated that r/YOinllon of the FoldinK Bed. for a minute. Then at last says I. tinient. The Theosopbist was serlom room and board for maid, exclusive of General Grey would arrive that even been somethin’ like a doctor In Ids own Mrs. De Flat—Have you anything carriage." country, an’ he could speak a dozen 'Where did them come from?' An’ he and silent Ing from Windsor. This of course im new In folding beds? Meanwhile the couple from New Eng languages like he was born to 'em, an' says, still laughin’, ‘Them come from Dealer—Only this, madam, and it plied that a mandate was coming from me saracens mid the Moo«. the claims. ’ ‘ Whose claims? ’ then says land were serenely content In their when he was In camp he was always The Saracens called the moon Ca- apartment—a bright room, with adjoin the queen charging Mr. Gladstone with really is quite a success On arising in I. ‘ Whose but my own?' replies he. experimentin’ with herbs an' mln'rals. the formation of bls first government. the morning you touch a spring and it bar the Great, and the crescent still boilin’ an’ mixin' an’ monkeyin’ with kind of short like, and then I quit a«k surmounts the Turkish mosques and Is ing bath and every comfort, which After a few minutes the blows ceased, turns into a washstand and bathtub. In' questions an ’ got right away down cost them $3 a day. Their meals, being 'em generally, so folks said. He looked nnd Mr. Gladstone, resting on the han After your bath, you touch another emblazoned on the green standard of nt me without «peakin' nt first w hen to thlnkln* what a third of them nug the prophet. Schlegal mentions a story ordered Judiciously from an elaborate dle of his ax, looked up and, with spring, nnd it becomes a dressing case, once I’d got up to the tin', but he didn't gets an' the claims they come from that Mohammed "wished to pass with menu, amounted to $6, while the com deep enrnestness In his voice and with with a French plate mirror. If you no ways seem to recollect meetln' me was worth, that bein’ the share I was bls disciples as a person transfigured bined tips of husband and wife reached great intensity In his face, exclaimed. breakfast in your room, a slight pres before, an’ I didn't let on tbnt I'd ever to have under our contract, as you'll In n supernatural light and that the the Bum of $1, making the total $10. “My mission Is to pacify Ireland.” He sure will transform It Into nn exten These two young people enjoyed the seen him. Then, when he’d looked me recollect, mn am. ded table After breakfast, you pre»' “Ever since the night I'd been knock credulity of bls followers saw the life in the public dining room, seeing then resumed Ills task ami never said these three buttons nt once nnd you over, he was no end obligin' an' told another word till the tree wns down ' " moon, or the moon's light, descend up well dressed guest« at table, which fre me where to get water for my burros ed out Fete had gone off on a new lead have an upright piano. That's all it on him, pierce his garments and re quently proves one of the most pleas from a big tank Just by camp an' sug altogether. He’d quit camp first thing plenish him. will do, except that when you die it ing sights of their trips. There they llendy For the Tent. ge.;ted I’d better settle 'town with'Idin nft-r sunup an' would never allow of can l»c eluingi-d Into a rosewood coffin — "That tic rat kit. for the moeu which had music, lights aud fiuweis girioTe, me goln' with him up to the claims for a day or two an’ rest up nn' look A teacher In one of* the Sc-iiObiS UeAt —New York Vi eekly. still forms a national, or, rattier, reli which they were at as much liberty to over on the next butte, about a mile Fhllndelpliia had one day been so dis gious, characteristic of the Mohammed glvln' out some fool reason or other for enjoy for their $10 a day as the western turbed by the buzzing of lips and sliuf away. There wax plenty of dry cotiete She Won. grass all nbout camp, an', bavin’ a long wantin’ to go up alone. This had gone ans may perhaps have its foundation couple for their $300 a day. fling of feet of the children that she He was a philosopher and a talker on for three days ’ runnin ’ , each night in the elder xuix-rstitlon or pagan ldola ways yet to go. I concluded to fall In “True, our state bridal suit is in con was on the verge of distraction. Fi She was- a woman of action. They try of the Arabs.” with his Idea an’ stop awhile before Fete cornin' back like he had the first stant demand, still a honeymoon can be nally she said: “Children. I cannot stood together on the bridge And watch time, with a sack full of nuggets, an' •pent In Washington on a wonderfully stand so much noise. Flease be quiet, ed a tug that wns hauling a long Hue tacklin' the rest of my trip. 1« to n««rer. naturally I began gettln' riled at bein' •mall amount of money without dis for a little while at least. Let me see of bnrges up the river. “That same mornin' I went over with laid on the shelf that way, a«' my «1 • Aunt Jane—Helen, I saw that young playing penurious qualities, a trait of him to the other butte to look nt Vls If you can't be so still that you could "Ixxik there, my dear.” said he rioslty got to workln’. I more'n half man kiss you last evening. Claims, nn’ they all showed up very “Such Is life. The tug is like the man. Helen—I don't think ydu need to com character from which the average hear a pin drop.” ausplcioned .that Fete's big luck was American bridegroom Is absolutely promisin', bein' every ways the best Instantly every child "became ns still working and tolling, while the barges, some ways «-elated to them queer jo plain. nuntie. I don’t think he would free.”—Washington Post. prospects I’d seen In some years, an' as a mouse. Then a little boy In a like the women, are”— have given the kiss to you if you had in's on Hint night by the fire. Then I when. In the evenin’, after we’d got back seat piped out with marked Im His wife gave him no time to finish Biade up my mind that I wa'n't goln' been there Instead of me.—Boston back to camp, he proposed my boldin' Theory anil Praetlce. patience: the sentence. “I know,” she said. “The I Transcript. to get wiser by Just mopin' round camp on where I was an' workin' in with Professor of Rhetoric — Here is an “Well, let her drop!” — Philadelphia tug does all the blowing and the barges Danirerna». him for grub an' a third interest in ev an' concluded to rustle almut on the Item of news I would like In the pa Ledger. bear all the burden ” quiet an' Inquire Into things. So next "An' bow'« yer husband tlie day?” per. • erything after I’d put In «'■year's time I omln’. Fete havin' gone off. ns usual. Why Kitty 1» >'Pa»»." iXr Official Time. City Editor (to ofikr boy)—Here. Ben It ended by my cornin' to the terms he I hung round a couple of hours after asked Mrs. Rafferty of Mrs Muldoon. A great many yeafs ago the people of Jerrold—As I was saying, I had $50 propost'd. I didn't much enre for such doin' my chores an' then filled my can "Sure, an’ he’s no better,” replied nie. rewrite thl«. Fix It up to print.— on Topnotch at 100 to 1. The race was Egypt, who had many idol«, worshiped a ' -rttier ns Pete, but the idea of get teen an', fakin' along a snack for my Mrs. Muldoon. “The doctor's nfrald Cleveland leader. the cat among others. They thought six furlongs and Topnotch won tin' the Interest In them claims stood noonin', started out on the trail to the morality will set In.”—Detroit Free Press. •be was like the moon, because she was Wkara «he Failed. .Harold—What was the time? off all such like objections, an' I start claim. Maybell—Can you keep a «ecret? Jerrold—Why—er-1 heard the clerk more active at night and because her ed In to work next day braced up an' “The sand was hot an' the air stiflin', Mot « Bit Aeeonimodatl««. eye« changed like the moon So they Ellaabeth—Ye«, eaklly. But I can't •trike 2 Just as I woke up!—Puck cheerful at the prospect ahead of me. an' I had an uncomfortable reelin' “ Meanest folks I ever saw In the help any one el«e keep one.—Judge. made an idol with a cat'« head and "I'ete Was a sullen, notional kind of a somehow that I wns out on a danger city." growled the man from the way- Tn Avoid rabllrlty. naffied it F««bt. The same name they 1 man. an' his goln's on was generally so ous errand an' that I'd be up to my Young Author (who tMnks hlrufftlf gave to t*e moon, for the Word men* There Is no daibt that the warns n altogether out of the common that I'd neck In trouble before ever I'd make back district. “Why, wbefi yofl find a begun to put him tip as bein' Just a lit the nmnd trip. I'd shuffled along feller goln’ rtcht your way with one o' who love« you forgives you too much. famous!—I believe I should enjoy HIT "the face < the moon.” The word fen« been clanged to “Paa” and “f*uC and tie gone, an’ while the l<lea didn't through the sand not more'n quarter them big cars lie won't give you a lift While the wwtnan whom you love for- vacation better If I could go.Jncog*to Friend Gbgff idea! Trojel undt« t* come at last to be “Puss." the naqw tnake me no ways comfortable when way to the butte when on a sudden I wltlmut chargin' you a nickel tot lt"~ glveB you too litt!«ar-New At-b'ans Exchange. roUF nom de ph in>* Ttmea-Democrat, the most of us give to the cat >e was together, it brought me some • ® »• A DESERT : MAGICIAN: ? r ? T »fb • * % • ■ ♦ é * ’ • • • o • SWORD EVOLUTION The Tra nail Ion I'rom lhe Aneleat <o the Madera Blaffa. A great many imslern sword forms are really nothing more than de scendants, or. rather, improvement», ou the |H-euliar boomerang sjiap«l sword of the aih-ii'iii Egyptian», the parent of the «clmder. yataghan, fak-hiou and saber Afrii.i south of the Sahara, u as perhaps the greatest museum for old swords In the world, lu the Su dun ami central Africa the old sickle and boomerang shap«l sword«, which the ancestor» of the modem uegroes receiied i-euturie« ago from the Egyp tian». were still made and In use. More- or er. the knight» of Malta were at one time famous awordmaker», and their peculiar long, double edged blades, such as the crusaders carried, were exported to the Barbary states, where they were In large demand. From there they were taken across the Sahara to the Sudan and exchanged for Ivory, and It w as on this account that they were still found in central Africa. In the sixteenth century u peasant living on the outskirts of Toledo, Spain, invented the famous Toledo rapier, which soon became the popular weapon air over Europe. Prior to that time the swords used In Europe were heavy affairs for hewing, slashing and cutting, but with the advent of the Toledo rapier men liad to learn to thrust as well as to hack and slash. With the rapier came the art of fencing, the six teenth and seventeenth centuries be Ing the age of the sword par excel lence. MORAL SUASION, The l-:>nerlen<*e of n School OIBctal Who Advocated It. This story is told at the expense ot a teeently appointed supervisor of a public school in this city: One day she happened to be visiting a school where a young Incorrigible wns undergoing punishment for a se ries of misdemeanors. The teacher cited him as "the worst boy In the school—oue I can't do any thing with. I’ve tried everything In the way of punishment.” “Have you tried kindness?” was the gentle inquiry of the other lady. "I did at first, but I've got beyond that now.” At the close of the session the lady asked the boy if he would call and see her ou the following Saturday. A boy arrived promptly at the hour appoint ed. The lady showed him her best pic tures, played her liveliest music and set before him a luncheon on her dain tiest china, when she thought it about time to begin her little sermon. “My dear,” she began, “were you not very unhappy to have to stand in th« corner before all the class for punish ment?” "Please, ma'am,” broke In the boy, with his mouth full of cake, “that wasn't me you saw. It was Pete, and he gave me 10 cents to come here and take your Jawing.”—Philadelphia Ledg er. A Lti Ins Book Marker. The mystery of life has rarely fur nished the thinker with so strange a problem as that which arises out of a tact Instanced by Mr. W. H. Hudson, the naturalist. Mr. Hudson had a piece of snake skin, which for years he used as a book marker. It changed color periodically and shed Its scales. It con tluued to shed its scales in this fash ion for ten years, each succeeding set of scales being smaller than the last Some fairly recent books would make even a hippopotamus hide book marker change color were it to find Itself be tween their leaves. The sensitive book marker capable of blushing rose red or paling with emotion may no doubt be a feature in lhe literary life of the amazing future and perhaps in the literary world. "Some Emotions of a Moral Book Marker” is a thinkable title when we consider the strides of modern "thought.”—London Outlook. The Compna» riant. On the western prairie Is found what Is called the compass plant, which Is of great value to travelers. The long leaves at the base of Its stem are placed, not flat, as in plants generally, but in a vertical position, and present their edges north and south. The peculiar propensity of the plant Is attributed to the fact that both surfaces of Its leaves display nn equal receptivity for light, whereas the upper surfaces of the leaves of most plants are more sensi tive to light than the lower. The leaves thus assume a vertical position and point north and south. Travelers on dark nights are said to feel the edges of the leaves to ascertain tlie point of the compass. Anliclpnted by Bhakeapenre. “Is Baunerly as egotistic as he looks?” “I think so. He wrote to a friend not long ago and In the course of the communication remarked that William Shakespeare seemed to bave anticipât ed in n somewhat rude and unfinished form one of his (Bannerly's) pet theo ries.”—Cleveland I’la in IX'aler A Smnll fir» in nine d.ong before the Revolution a young printer In Fhllndelpliia. when he had taken off bls working apron nt night, u»«d to sit poring c «!-! mk dozer, of cld volumes by firelight. He soou knew them by heart nnd hungered for more But books were costly, and he bad bm little money. He had eight or fen cronies, young men who. like himself, wore eager for knowledge. Ranging his books on a shelf, lie Invited bis friends to do the same, that each of them might have the benefit of them all. Ben Franklin thus laid the founda tion of the first circulating library in this country. Monrnln« In Korea. Koreaigi wear full mourning for their fathers. The dress Is of hemp cloth, with a hempen girdle. A face shield Is used to show that the wearer is a sin ner and must not apeak to any one un less addressed. The costume is re tained for three years, the shield for three months. This is worn for a fa ther only. Secondary mourning Is worn for a mother nnd no mourning at all fwa wife. The hat 1» of wicker. Dur ing the China-Japanese war the United States minister ordered every Ameri can citizen to have In readiness a drea« Of tuts sort for disguise in case of flight.