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FREAKS OF THE TYPE.
S O M E F U N N Y T H IN G S T H A T QET
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M ix e d - U p A c c o u n t o f a W e d d in g .
Mrs. Morris looked puzzled. “I may
«-» UNT PRUE, how proud you
Dreadful execution Is done some
must have felt when you won have met him that afternoon, and he times by the muu behind the types.
that $100 prize lu your first story may have walked part of the way home Ouce a newspaper muu wrote au "ad”
coni|M*tltlou. 1 wonder what you did with me, but—why, Margaret!”
for a theater, aud lu It said:
For the girl had thrown herself down
with all that sudden wealth.”
From
half-past eight till hslf-past ten
beside
her
auut
and,
with
her
face
hid
“I have never yet told any one what
You laugh aud laugh aud laugh agaiu.
1 first did with the money, Margaret.” den In the folds of Mrs. Morris' gown,
Thu style ou thut pa(»er culled for ex
replied Mrs. Morris, ‘•but It can do no was half sobbing and half weeplug.
The older woman patted the girl's pressing the hours by figures, so wbeu
harm to tel, the story now. It all hap
bowed head, while her face lit up with the "ad” appeared It reud like this;
pened ten years ago.
From 8:30 to 10:30
u
sudden understanding.
"As I was on my way home with the
i ’ou laugh aud laugh and laugh again.
The
next
time
Margaret
met
the
pro
two crisp $50 bills In my pocket, 1 met
Sometimes the proofreader fal.s to
a young man who had been one of my fessor she smiled on him so sweetly
pupils two or three years before, lie that the poor man was bewildered.. correct, uud sometimes he doth correct
was quite a favorite of miue, and 1 They met frequently, and at Mar too much. The sporting editor of a Ban
had known his people for many years. garet’s request the professor resumed Francisco puper had aiuoug ids notes
On this day he turned and walked with his calls. At last he ventured once an item which suld, "The young sulmou
me, and I soou guessed that he was In < more to tell her of his love, and this are beginning to run.” The uext morn
some deep trouble. ' After a while I time her reply must have been a favor ing the statement was printed ou li.s
won the story from him. He had been able one, for when the professor left, page thut "The young salrnou are be
speculating in stocks and had ‘bor some time later, he walked as one who ginning to swim.” V lieu the cd.tor
rowed,’ unknown to his employes, a had received a crown. Aud so, per usked how It happened the proofreader
hundred dollars of the firm's money. haps, he had, for a man can win no said cheerily;
"That’s ull right, Billy. You had that
He had lost, and in despair at being better crown than the love of a true
mixed up with your turf stuff, but I
unable to, refund the money, had woman.—Boston Post.
straightened It out for you.”
forged his uncle’s name to a check,
"Bui why didn't you let it go us I
J U S T T H E F O R C E O F H A B IT .
which, however, he had not yet found
wrote It?” persisted the editor.
courage to present for payment.
ly O ne
”1 couldu't,” was the reply. "Who
“Well, the end of it was that the crisp I l l u s H t r a a b t i i o t n M a o y f S l l u o p w p la C n o t m A p n le o te
th e r.
ever heard of a fish running?”
$50 bills in my possession changed
“Habit is a curious thing,” said Mr.
One morning the readers of an es
hands, the forged check was destroyed,
Joggleton,
"but the completeness with teemed contemporary were perplexed
and Charlie left me, with broken words
of thanks and a few earnest promises which one habit can be supplanted by to see lu type the announcement that
another seems more curious still.
’’The Scotus handed down ac Import-
for the future.”
"I had a chair that 1 had used for ant decision yesterday." The afternoon
"Did he ever repay you the money,
years, and which, as I was firmly con (taper of the town, with whom the
auntie?”
"Yes, he paid it all bqck in a few vinced, was by long odds the most com morning paper for years had held a
-months. I believe he has always lived fortable chair ever made. After break bitter controversy. Interesting none but
an honest, upright life since, and I have fast, when I read the paper, I used to themselves, laughed that day, as the
never regretted the first investment of sit In that chair, aud after dinner at poets say, "In ghoulish glee,” and It
night 1 settled down Into it, with a was up to the morning paper the next
my prize money.”
cigar, in peace and happiness aud day to explain that "the types” made
A short time later as Margaret Illm- thought there never was a chair that
them say that the Scotus did so and so,
nier was on her way home, she heard
combined so many good points as to when the telegraph editor should have
a deep, manly voice say, “Good after
height and pitch of seat and slope of known that that word was merely the
noon. Miss Margaret,” and Professor
back, and all that; I had never seen a abbreviation of the telegrapher for Su
Hay fell into step by her side.
chair that suited me so well.
preme Court of the United States.
"1 have just been calling ou my Aunt
"But one day tills chair was tipped
One Sunday a preacher in McKee’s
Prudence,” said Margaret, as they
over, or something or other happened to Rocks, Fa., took for his text, “Be ye
walked on slowly. “I have spent a de
it—I don’t know what—but something ! therefore steadfast,” which, being In
lightful afternoon reading some of her
so serious that it was put out of com-' terpreted lu the weekly paper, meant,
old stories. You know she won a hun-
dred-dollar prize once with one of her mission. With our usual conservative "Be ye there for breakfast.”
slowness, we put off from day to day
It was the mistake of a make-up man
first stories.”
and from week to week getting that
"Yes, I remember,” said the profes chair repaired, and, as a matter of fact, that put a face powder puff between
sor, somewhat absently, looking down it was two or three years before we two death notices, and the telegraph
as he si>oke at a few Huffy curls that had it fixed up aud brought into use editor, who stayed late that morning,
escaped from beneath the brim of his again. Meanwhile, I had singled out saw It and had It routed out of the
companion’s hat. "I remember that I another chair which I came commonly stereotype plate.
Style Is everything In n newspaper
met your aunt on that day that she to occupy. This didn’t liegin to be, at
received the prize, and she allowed me first, so comfortable as the old one had | office, and some papers spell "theatre,”
to walk part of the way home with her. lieen, but gradually its objectionable "centre,” “livre,” aud so on with a
Y'ou know she was my teacher in the points disappeared, aud I’m blessed If final “er.” That Is why one of these pa
old high school.”
it didn’t begin to develop good points pers a while ago announced that a cele
“No, I did not know it,” replied Mar that I had never suspected in it, aud I , brated French actor received a salary
garet. slowly, with a shock of surprise. came at last to look upon It as a very of “300 livers.”
It would be a long story to tell In de
To herself she was repeating with a comfortable soil of a chair. Indeed. But
sick heart, “This is the end of auntie’s nt last the old chair, the good old chair, tail how mix-ups happen, but that they
story; his name is Charles Hay, and was fixed up again and brought back really do happen enn be doubted by uo
it was he who walked home with into use, and the day It appeared I newspaper man whose knowledge of
auntie that day. He must never know looked forward to settling down In It the business ever led him to explora
that I know.” She forced herself to at night with all the old-time comfort. tions of the mysteries of the compos
take some part in the conversation, try
"But when, with all those pleasant ing room, as well as the somewhat In
ing to put aside for the time the anticipations, I came to sit in it again tricate mnzes of the editorial-room. And
thought o f what this knowledge f u s t I did not find the pleasure thut I had io this heart-breaking account of a mar
mean to her, that she could never again expected; it was too high, or too low, riage may be vouched for as au actual
look up to him with the old respect, or the seat sloped too much, or some occurrence:
that the sweet fancies that had of late thing—I don’t know what; It wasn’t | “The church was finely decorated
begun to come to her, of a dearer as it used to be—to me. I tried it once ! with holly aud evergreen, and the altar
friendship between them, must be reso or twice more after that and then gave j was hidden In a wealth of flowers. Out
lutely crushed out. No, it could never it up and went back to the new chair. of the recesses rose rare tropical plants,
be just the same again.
My new habit had become firmly fixed. and from the celling hung fifteen West
When, a few days later, Mr. Hay I liked the new chair better, and now, ern veals, which at this time of year
called on Margaret, and in a few man as I settled down in It, Its good points are scarce and corresponding dear at
ly words told her of Ills love, Margaret were at once emphasized, and softened, G@8% cents per pound. There was also
gently, but decidedly, refused his offer. and rounded into completeness, and I an active demand for choice lambs,
She would give him no reason, except accepted it in full as the chair of satis and farmers east of the Mississippi
that it could never be. No, she cared fying comfort, and wondered as 1 River can profitably turn to sheep rais
for no one else—but it could never be. looked across at the other what I ever ing and take the bride, who wore a
So the professor went sadly away, and could have seen in it to make me like gown of white corded silk, a creation
Margaret, with pale face and eyes dim It so much.
of Worth’s, with pearl ornaments.
with .inshed tears, sought her room.
“Then came the maid of honor, the
"Such is the force of habit.”—Chicago
For hours that night Margaret Rim- Inter Ocean.
cousin of the bride, Miss Henrietta
tuer lay awake and wrestled with the
Blower, of Chicago, wearing a dress of
S ta m p s S p re a d C o n s u m p tio n .
problem—was it fair to condemn the
white tulle, with diamond ornaments,
It is stated by a responsible medical and she was followed by a small bunch
man of 30, honest, respecteft, who had
journal
that a surgeon in the French of Montana sheep, which Ideated most
won his place In the world, for the
folly and sin of ten years ago? Had army has just discovered that stamp piteously as they were driven on board
be not nobly redeemed the past? But, collectors may be the means of dissem and shipped to the winter hotels In
still, how could she respect him as she inating tuberculosis by means of the Bermuda. They will there he cut eu
might if she had never heard that stamps. A man in his employ was a tralne and slightly decollete, and after
wretched story? A forger, a thief. great stamp collector and occupied his the rest of the party had reached the
No, she could never trust her life’s hap spare time in fixing the stamps In al rail the minister turned and said Im
piness to one whom she could not rev bums or on sheets of gummed paper pressively: ‘I cannot hid more than OVi
erence as nobler, greater, than herself. for sale, moistening the stamps for the cents for State veals, but cablegrams
Margaret was calling on her aunt a purpose with his tongue.
from London quote refrigerated beef
Three hundred of the stamps were nt a price that will enable me to pay
few days later, when Mrs. Morris re
marked: “By the way, you remember placed In sterilized water, and with $4,110 for a car °f choice Indiana beeves,
the story I told you about the young some of the water eight guinea pigs and hearing this there was a rush for
man whom I helped out of trouble with were Inoculated. Each died with char the young married couple, and the
acteristic tuberculosis lesions. Chil bride fell Into the arms of her father,
my prize money?”
"Yes,” said Margaret, faintly, won dren, saysthe journal, should be warned who Is known to bear a striking resem
against placing any stamps near their blance to a Connecticut ox weighing
dering what was to come.
"He called on me yesterday, and mouths ,n order to moisten them and 1,875 pounds. The market here took
brought me a photograph of his two foreign stamps should be disinfected an upward turn and advanced 1@2
in a 5 per cent, solution of carbolic cents, and the guests, who numbered
children.”
“His children!” exclaimed Margaret. acid before adding them to collections. about 200, were served with a sump
"Yes, he Is married, and has a lovely
tuous dinner at the house of the bride.”
C o n s id e r a tio n fo r W h e e lm e n .
wife and a pretty little home.”
Fublic pumping stations are to be es
Margaret listened as if In a dream. tablished in all the , bicycle paths
H n b m i r ln e B o a ts .
"Then—then it was not Mr. Hay?” she around St. Paul and Minneapolis. By
Rhould the submarine boat take the
stammered.
dropping a penny In the slot the rider place In naval warfare that some na
“Mr. Hay! No, Indeed. Charles with a deflated tire may have the use tions expect, one of the chief precau
Hay is the soul of honor. Why, what of an air pump as long as necessity tions taken by the world’s navies will
In the world made you connect him may require.
be an immense Increase In the number
with this story?”
of balloons, with duly trained staffs to
"He—he said he walked home with
It Is supposed that people like their work them, carried by war vessels.
you on the day you received the prize owu home because of the sentiment
The balloon.'’ "«rrled by these battle
money. And he said he was one of attached, but the real reason Is that ships are of exactly the same materlnl
they do not have to move.
your old puoils---- ”
aud pattern as those In ««a in the
army, only smaller. They hare a ns*
far lu advance of any mere loug-dls-
taueeobservatloiiul purpose, fur, though
the wuke of a submarine boat sunk
deeply lu the water eau only be traced Great Fam e of a G reat M e d icin e
Won by A ctual M e rit.
with difficulty from such an elevation
The fame of Hood's Sarsaparilla has
us that afforded by a ship, both such ' been
won by tba good It lias dona to thoaa
wake and the boat Itself can be seen j who were »uttering from disease. Its cures
with absolute aud undevlu’lug clear- have excited wonder aud adm iration. I t
caused thousands to reloioe In the eu-
uess from a captive balloon. This Is has
oynienl of good health, ami it w ill do you
the result of a aclentlflc aud optical he same good it has done others. I t w ill
law, aud when ship balloons were first I expel from your blood all im piiritiee; w ill
give you a good appetite aud make you
put to the practical teat In regnrd to strong
ami vigorous. I l l s just the m edi
this matter, the results attalued were i cine to help you now, wbeu your system
Is in need of a tonic and Invigorator.
of the most surprising kind.
Even where the water Is distinctly | S o r b * -" L a s t spring I liad sores on
face. I began taking Hood's Sarsa
cloudy, objects of a much smaller klud niy
parilla ami continued with it u ntil the sores
tliHii a submarine boat, and painted of were all gone and I was stronger aud
neutral color, could he seen from a bal healthier than ever before.” J ohn K.
loon with the utmost clearness nt a M ounuovah , Point Arena. Cal.
depth of five fathoms, or thirty feet,
though the surface was rough. No sub
marine bout could lu the daytime get
Is A m erica's Mreuteet M edicine
within striking distance of a threaten
F o x h u n t K m teil In a C h u rch .
ed ship that had a bulloou without be
Aa tha congregation was assembling
ing observed.
the other day at Broughton Astley
church, near Leicester, whore a daily
service is held during the war, a (ox
aud the whole of the Atherstou« pack
of hounds rau into the sacred edifice I
where the fox was quickly dispatched
by the hounds. Kouie minutes elapsed
before they could be cleared out of the
church.—Loudon Mail.
C u r e s T a lk
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
W ill Cure you. Dr. Plunder’»
Perihelion means when the planets
are nearest the sun. Aphcllou means ^ REGONffLOODp U P IF liR
when the planets are farthest from the
sun.
A (sipulsr remedy for the bite of a
The flow of sap Is caused principally
mad dog, ut the t>eginuiiig of the 10th
by trnusplratton of leaves and osmosis. century was for the victim to take au
Its course Is the xylem (woody portion* ounce of the pulverized jawbone of the
of the vascular bundles. Bap obtained dog that hail bitten him.
After the
lu tapping maples (lows, under certain administration of this remedy the ani
conditions, both wuys, but more up mal wua never kuowu to bite any one.
than down.
Mothers w ill find Mrs. Wittaluw's Sooth
In the Century Magazine, John Bur- 1 ing
Syrup the bent remedy to use for the*»
roughs writes: "I have never seen the children during the teething period.
snake swallowing Its young. It Is a
A new automatic machine gun is be
moot question whether or not the snake ing tested by the United States army.
does swallow Its young, blit If there It weighs only 12 pundit, can be car
Is no other good reason for It, may they ried by one uiau, aud fires 450 shots a
not retreat Into their mother's stomach minute.
to feed? How else may they be nour-
Somebody, very learned, once took
Islied?”
the
trouble of weighing the brains of a
When pure wnter becomes slightly |
number
of animals, aud found that the
turbid by extremely finely divided
white or colorless (»articles floating brain of a tame rabbit weighed less for
therein, they reflect, even lu the case its size than the brain of any other
known creature—much less than that
of ground mountain crystal, a yellow '
of a wild rabbit.
light, which unites with the natural
blue Into a brilliant green color, such
ns Is exhibited by the Neueuburg aud I * A d v e rtis in g Is n o t a lu x u ry , P
Boden lakes.
(► b u t r a t h e r a n e c o n o m ic b u s l- *
E. A. Martel, the French explorer of I * n e s a p ro p o s itio n , re c o g n iz e d j)
caverns, whose discoveries under , * by a ll th e b »a t a n d m o a t s u e - A
ground have attracted much attention ( * c e s s fu l b u s in e s s m e n t h e A
j
within the past few years, reports that ( I w o rld o ver.
he has found lu the department of I A W W W * V i w v w i
Hautes Al(<es a cavity lu the form of a
A new method of preserving tele
"natural well,” whose depth exceeds graph poles is to surround the (»ortion
that of any other known. He lias in the ground with an earthenware pipe
sounded It to tin* depth of almut 1,017 like a drain pipe. Into the space be
feet, but he believes that the actual bot tween the (»ole and the pipe is poured
tom has not yet been reached.
a mixture of spnd and resin.
French engineers have lately made
successful tests of wireless telegraphy
between the lofty observatories on the
crown of Mont Blanc and the Valley of
Chamonix. It bad been feared that
the absence of moisture In the frozen
surface might Interfere with the earth
connection, but no such trouble was
experienced. The only difficulty arose
when the alternating current dynamos
of the electric light system Chamonix
were at work. At such times the wire
less messages could not be transmitted
uor received.
The meridian of Greenwich Is gener
ally accepted as the starting line from
which to reckon longitude and time all
over the earth. But objections are,
from time to time, raised against the
universal adoption of the Greenwich
meridian for such purposes. Recently
Italian savants have emphasized these
objections by pointing out that on the
meridian of Greenwich clouds aftd bad
weather are frequent, Interfering with
astronomical observations. They sug
gest that the civilized world should
agree to adopt the meridian of Jerusa
lem ns a common reference line, be
cause there the skies are dearer, and
the possibility of - making Palestine
neutral territory would eliminate polit
ical objections.
The coast and geodetic survey has re
cently completed some very careful
leveling operations which show that
the surface of the Gulf of Mexico lies
perceptibly higher than that of the
Atlantic Ocean. Between the surface
of the ocean at Rt. Augustine on the
eastern shore of Florida and the sur By a simple twist of the wrist you can Una
face of the Gulf at Cedar Keys on the up the c u tte r b a r on the
western shore there Is a mean differ I
ence In level of nine-tenths of a foot.
This Is considered to he sufficient to You can’t do It os any other. And there are
account for the outpouring current of other points too. Send for Catalogue.
the Gulf Rtream, which, In the narrow MITCHELL, LEWIS & ST AVER CO.,
er parts of the Strait of Florida, touch
P O R T L A N D , OREOON.
es bottom. The surplus of water which
raises the Gulf above the level of the
ocean Is apparently received through
the Yucatan Channel, being driven In
by the prevailing equatorial currents
from the east.
Champion Draw Cut Mower
W a n te d th e R e a l Sensation.
In a Berlin mercantile establishment
recently a woman, when arrested for
stealing articles, offered the plea that
she was engaged upon a work of fic
tion and, wishing to Introduce a shop
lifter In her story, she had committed
theft so as to be able to describe ac
curately the sensations and the emo
tions of the character.
To fully Introduce our F a m o u s “ S O U T H K 1
B E L I. I C I O A R S ' ws giro
to each parson buying
s box of 00 cigars for J2.60 and sxprsss charges, an elegant
ticket plats case, »Mm w ind, stem ta t, open race W a t c h ,
American m a te , which with proper care ahould last
lor years; also a plated watch chain and charm . Ssndua
four name and fu ll add rasa—no money. W e w ill send
ligars, watch, chain and charm. If . after examination, you
tra sattafled, pay your agent 12.60 and axpresa chargee.
These goods sent any where In the U . 8 . a t these terms. Th e
“Southera Belle' Is as good as many 10c cigars now offered.
A d d re e e N a tlo n a l C l g a r C o . ,
S t L o u is , Mo,
When ordering pleue glee the name ofthle pspsr without fa ll