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“BY THE GRACE OF CHANCE.” By W. A. FRASEE. (Copyright, UNO, by W. A. Fruw.) Harvey assured Johnson that the horse couldu't lose at that weight. To make the good thing a greater certainty Johnson let the trainer have his own jockey, Richmond, for Simp kin and determined to ride Zigzag him self. If the game had been Zigzag, this would uot have mattered so very much, for be was one of the best riders in In dia. That the owner was riding Zigzag confirmed Layton In his determination to have a plunge on the horse. At the lotteries the night before the race Layton bought Zigzag In the first lottery. When the secretary asked if the own er claimed anything. Johnson answer ed, “Nothing, thanks.” “He’ll come to me after It’s all over,” thought Layton, “and ask for a half throughout. He knows I’ll have to give It to him too. It wouldn’t be safe to have his horse running with none of the owner’s money on.” When Simpkin was sold, Johnson bought him through another party. And so it was through every lottery, and there were many of them, for the handicap was a big betting race, with eight horses in It. Layton bought Zigzag steadily every time, and Johnson's agent took Simp kin. After It was over Layton rather won dered that Zigzag's owner made no sign—did not come and ask for his half. He could understand Johnson’s re fusing to take any Interest In him in the lotteries, for the effect of that was to reduce his betting price. But why did he not come forward now when it was all over? “He’ll come around tn the morning,” he thought. “He won’t let hint run un backed after that trial.” But In the morning Johnson still made no sign. Layton was getting a little uneasy. Racing was such an un certain business at best. What if something had gone wrong with Zig zag? He would be utterly ruined If he failed to win the race. Not only the Marwarie’s debt, but the present lot tery account. He would be posted as a defaulter. At least It would take every rupee he could rake together in tlie world to square up. and he would cer tainly have to send In his papers. Fifteen minutes before the race no offer had come from Johnson to take a share in Zigzag's chances. The sus pense was too great for Layton. He went to the little dressing room just under the stand where Johnson was putting on his slim riding boots and colors. “See here, Frank,” he said, “I’ve got Zigzag in every lottery, and I stand to win a big pot over him. Do you want any of it? You haven't taken a bit of it yet.” Johnson was noted for two things, his superb riding and bls exquisite cyn ical humor. “Who the merry hades told you to back my horse?” he asked. “I backed him because I thought be could win and -you were riding him,” answered Layton, coloring slightly. “Well, he hasn’t the ghost of a chance,” said Johnson, tightening the strings in his racing cap. “and I don’t want a bit of him in anything. He hasn’t a thousand to one chance." Layton was dumfounded. “If he doesn’t win,” he said, “1 shall come a cropper.” Johnson looked at him queerly for a minute; then he said: “Now go and square yourself on Simpkin. You can hedge on him, for he’s a sure winner.” “And If he’s beaten,” said Layton al most angrily, “I shall be in a worse hole than ever. I won’t do it. I’ll stand or fall by Zigzag, and I'll lay you 5,000 rupees to nothing against his winning.” “I won’t do It that way,” said John son quickly, “for that Isn’t a bet If I "Don't put a load of brick» on Zigzag'» back." can’t lose, I can’t win. That's the rule tn betting, but I’ll take 5,000 rupees to 10. "Here, Dick,” he called sharply. “You witness this bet Mr. Layton lays me 5,000 rupees to 10 against Zigzag, if the horse wins, he pays me 5,000; if he doesn’t, I pay him 10. That's a clear understanding. Isn’t It?" “Yes,” answered Layton cheerfully. “It’s the only bet I’ve got on my mount” added Johnson, “and It’s just throwing 10 rupees In the sea.” As they rode over to the post Johnson •aid to Dick: “I’ll carry them along for you half a mile, for with your light weight It will be better for something to make the running. When I’m done for, you can go to the front and canter home. I think you'll have an easy job.” “I’d rather be on Zigzag, sir,” replied the jockey. “I know wbat he can do, •nd I don't like the feel of this fellow under me. He's shifty.” The race was a mile and a quarter. As the horses made their way over to the starting post across the course from the stand Gaiety came up to Lay- ton and said. "There’s a tremendous rush on Simpkin.” And so there was. The stable money being all on, Harvey had told a few of his friend« auil the ring was Gooding the bookmakers with money tor Simp kin. Very few v, ere backing Zigzag, and he was traveling out In the liettlng. “Ten to one. Zigzag!" the bookmak ers were howling In vain: there were no takers At the start .lolimmu was playing to get away In flout to make the runuiug and keep a nice place for Simpkin to drop into when tils horse was beaten. At the third attempt they got away, very much as the captain desired. “They’re off!” went up from the grand stand in a hoarse cry, and glasses were leveled at the bright splashes of color twistlug in and out. as the eight horses scrambled for places. A black Jacket, with red and yellow sleeves, shot to tlie front Immediately. "Zigzag leads,” somebody exclaimed, and Layton rubbed his glasses with his handkerchief aud focused them on the leader of tlie rushing troop. He could see the red and yellow quartered cap leaning far over the withers of the big bay. Yes, it was Zigzag. “He’s got away well,” said Layton to Gaiety, without lowering his glasses. "He's trying anyway, and if it comes to any brain work at the finish John sou can give all the boys seven pounds at that game.” When they lad traveled a quarter of a mile, the black jacket was a length In front of everything. Layton's heart lay like lead In bis breast. That was not Johnson** tactics when be was out to wiu a mile aud a quarter race. With 10 stone up. lie wouldn't be ninking Ills own running. Layton knew then that he had lost. It was almost a relief to know Just Where he stood. He had cast the die and lost. Some fool near him was croaking. “Zigzag’ll win all the way.” lie felt pity in bls heart for the man's utter girls may be a wrapped in many layers of Hie costliest silksand weighed town by n mass of coral Jewelry. A - : illar ciiutei.’u t for death, with- ut it x f g’oi.s basis. Is exhibited by itt i i victims ilestiii -d for sacrifice, fnce De < irdl attempted to rescue one of |lieni. I t t.ie niau was much in- ceused and deliberately taunted the oilier savages and their chief with such dire insults that they fell upon him and slew him. Circumcision is common. It has uo religious significance, but iu some tribes is a mark of slavery, lu others of freedom. A woman feels herself greatly insult ed if another woman extends toward her a first and a second finger in V form, closing the thumb over the other fingers It means, ”1 hope you will be the mother of twins.” Most of the trllies kill twins nt birth, together with their mother. Monsters ot the Old Age. Aidrovaiidus* “Monstrorum Illstorla” was printed in Bologna In 1642, 35 years after ills death, and was put forth in good faith as n contribution to natural history. Aldrovandus thought lie was teaching manklud all about the remarkable creatures to be found In distant climes.. It almost looks as though he anticipated the "rubber neck” by bls strange combination of a man with the neck of a crane. He was uot satisfied, however, with giving ills renders this marvel to grat ify their appetite for the wonderful. He presented a picture of a woman with the wings and claws of a bird, and, having conceived this marvelous bird woman, he reversed the process and made pictures of a boy with a bird’s bead and horses, goats, pigs and lions with human faces. Nor wns Aldrovandus alone lu the creation of monsters stranger than ever were seen on land or sen. There were Marco Polo, Mandeville and l’ln- to. who, while relating much that was valuable and true of foreign lands, hail no hesitation In Including stories and pictures of men aud animals born of a vivid Imagination. Witness the pic ture of a man like that described by Shakespeare, “Men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders.” What a credulous age for writers and readers alike! The Corkwood Tree. Corkwood comes from the bark of a species of live oak tree found at its best In the forests of Spain. The cork wood tree Is said to be one of the three most valuable trees known, the others lielng the trees producing rubber and quinine. The corkwood bark is strip ped from tlie trees and tlie principal branches ubout once In every ten years, each tree yielding from 50 to 500 pounds of crude cork. This Is packed in Spain, shipped to tills country In “/ can’t go ting fauter; I'm done for." bales and boiled to make it less brittle ignorance ot racing, l’erhaps, though, and is then handled by machinery and after all. it were better that way; he turned out In various finished prod almost envied him. It was the knowl ucts. edge of racing that broke so many of Tlie corkwood tree requires about them. ten years to recover from tlie bark At the three-quarters Zigzag was stripping and does not, like most trees, still lending. die wltii the loss of Its bark. Tlie old “He’ll win! He’ll win!” the other man er the tree tlie better tlie yield of cork was saying exultantly. "I took 10 to 1 Is said to be, and in Spain many trees about him.” are bearing heavy bark crops at the Then something crept up on Zigzag- age of more than a hundred years. crept tip until the horses were lapped The only enre required of tlie trees Is head and head. Tlie glasses showed that the underbrush be cleaned out tlie white Jacket and red cap of the constantly to guard against tlie danger ■lagnat's stable. of forest fires. The trees, because of “Simpkin is coming now!” went up a their bark, are highly Inflammable. cry from many throats—the throats of the many who hail backed him when Sneesinir. tlie tip was spread about. The Jewish rabbis of old say that At tlie mile Slmpkiu’s Arab bead when Adaui and Eve sinned it was en- showed in front. The two were a clear acted that man's death was to be sud length in front of the field. den, ending unexpectedly In a sneeze, The stand was wild with delight, for Induced probably by tlie sweat of ills Simpkin had started favorite. brow being checked by a chill. Over on the horses Johnson and Dick But Jacob, set back, presumably. In were riding so close together that they the history of the world a few ages, could speak In short, gasping words as saw this terrible state of affairs and the wind cut at their breath. wrestled with the angel over tlie point Three furlongs from home they were whether men should fall to pieces together, nose and nose—Simpkin hail when they sneezed. He gained the vic dropped back a head. tory, but the augel made a condition Johnsen could hear something clos with him tlait the sneeze should only ing up on them from behind. prove mortal when those who stood “Go on. Dick!” he gasped. “I’ll pull by omitted to say the words “God bless back and let you up next the rail.” you!” “I can’t.” answered Dick helplessly. It so happened afterward that Jacob “1 can’t go any faster; I’m done for.” sneezed one day when there was no A great rage came into the heart of body by to say the words, and the re tlie captain This was the “sure thing” sult was that he grew ill and died a they had put him on to. Beaten a quar lingering death, a thing unknown iq ter of a mile from the Unlsh, and the the good old death by sneezing days. others closing up on them. Already a Ever since then, fearing the sneeze, chestnut head was hipped on the quar ns a sign of not sudden death, but of ap ters of Simpkin. proaching disease, men never omitted Zigzag was still full of running, fight th" salutation of “God bless you.” Tlie ing for his head. Slowly, inch by Inch, Brazilians have a legend somewhat the chestnut was creeping up. His similar.—Glasgow Mail. nose was at Diek’s girths now. The True l'oker Flat. “I’m done,” he heard Dick say again, f In 1852 Poker Flat produced $700,000 and tlieii be gripped the saddle with his knees and rode tor Lawton's 5,000 tn gold bullion In a single month and celebrated the event with a triple hang rupees. A furlong from home lie was clear of ing. Then came the public spasm of Simpkin, lint the chestnut was still virtue which caused the John Oak there, lapped on ills quarters now, and bursts and the "outcasts of Poker Flat” beside the chestnut, on the outside, to depart from thence and die of cold was an iron gray, coming very fast and starvation on the snow bound road to Sandy Bar. There are no "Oak too. How be cursed the folly that bad hursts” nor “Uncle Blllya” In Poker made film take so much out of Zigzag Flat today, and when the stranger makes the slow descent and suddenly to make tlig running for Simpkin. If the gallant old horse would only by n sharp turn In the trail comes upon last borne, the 5,(XW rupees would pay the famous camp he finds In that bud dle of caliins little to remind him of the bls losses. In the stand tlie cry of “Zigzag Poker Flat of 1852. The famous slope presents almost a s ins!” went up-as tlie horses clung to picture of utter ruin. There are but each other up the straight. Layton was tugging at bls blond eight persons living In the old town, mustache, and even G lety’s face was while n hundred dead ones sleep In tlie Some of the graves are solemn and still ns he realized what cemetery. that struggle meant to the two of marked witli wooden headboards, some them—meant more to them than to all with stakes, but many have nothing the others In the stand together. Not above them. Nearly all of them were inly tlie money, but honor—life Itself— laid to rest without religious rites save a Bible reading l»y old Charlie Pond, was at stake. who, though a professional gambler, As they flashed past the stand Zig tig's big bony head, with Its wide red was selected for the religious oflb ■ owing to Ills excellent voice and ora nostrils, was still in front. torlcal ability. And so they enught the judge's eye. In 1853 and 1854 there were 2.0CMI The stout heart of the gallant horse ind tlie cool bend of the steel nerved souls in Poker Flat and 15 stores. 5 ho tiller had won the race th..t was all tels, 3 dance halls and 7 gambling houses. There Is but one man left to tut thrown away. day of that original company. He is an Queer African Cnntomw. old and grizzled veteran, who delight.-« Count de Card! has been entertaining to tell how In 1856 n circus came to he London Anthropological society town and sold 1.500 tickets of admis with an account of the manners and sion at $20 each.—W. M. Clemens In 'tistoms of tlie Niger delta, with which Bookman. ong experience has made him farnil- The dressing of the lialr Is the most ar. Human sacrifices are offered to tlie Important part of a Chinese woman's ;od of the river, and the tan colored toilet. The district she comes from ualdens of tlie Ibo tribe are preferred may always lie known from the man ner in which she does her hair. It also is victims. Young The girls know their Impending fate Indicates tier stntlon In life. mil are proud of it. If they take a fan- girls, whether married or single, wear y to garments or ornaments worn by cues, colling up their hair. ns their ither women, tlie Intter dare not re western sisters do. on attaining a eer fuse t” 've them up. and so the chosen tain age. COULDN’T CALL HIM CRAZY. VANITY OF SAVAGES. Jaxt u Nr,,»p«i>er Headliner Mnm- bllun From Force ot Habit. Red lira I.ove to I'oxe la Grotexqne Attire llefore the Camera. As evidence of tile extent to which the onia mental precedes the useful Ex plorer Humboldt noted the fact that the Orinoco Indians In fair weather strutted about attired in all the finery they were able to procure, their faces painted gaudily, their beads decked with feathers, their whole aim being to strike astonishment to the beholder and no regard whatever hud for com fort. When the weather was bad. Hum boldt found that the same men would doff their clothing and carry it about to save It for display on future suuny ilays. The same traits are seen today In the North American Indians, little modified l>y many years of intermingling with civilization. That part of Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, running from Second to Sixth street is lhe favorite promenade of visiting Indians. Portions of Sec ond and Third streets, running off the avenue, lire tilled with boarding houses especially patronized by tlie redskins and especially avoided by the whites In consequence. A number of photographers in the vi cinity are the chief attractions of this neighborhood for the aborigines. Noth ing so delights them as to strut gravely from their boarding houses to these art galleries to sit for solemn pictures at Uncle Sain's expense, the bill being charged In with necessaries Incidental to a visit to the great father. To deprlv • the visiting Indian of the privilege to sit for Ills photograph In full paint ami feathers and a grotesque mixture of cheap ready made garments with blankets litui bear claws would be the greatest hardship possible to the chieftains. Showing tlie same disposition Hum boldt noted, the visitors get themselves up more barbarously the closer they H ilton relics at harvard get to civilization.—St. Louis Republic. The young man with the haggard look sat In tin* rear ear of an elevated train, staring and staring at one of the advertisements. “English beauty shoes,” he mumbled to his companion. “That's wbat he says." "Yes.” said the other, "but that’s too short." “Hm. hm," tlie haggard man replied. “Beautiful shoes from England”— “That won’t lit. It's long,” was the curt reply. "Wdl, then, ’Beautiful English shoes' "That's only three words. You’ve got to have four, you know.” "That’s so, that’s so. Ah, I have it!” lie cried so loud that all the other pas sengers In tlie ear gave a Jump. " ’Eng lish slioes of beauty,’ 23 letters and spaces at last.” A compassionate old man looked up from Ills newspaper. “What’s the mutter with your friend?” he asked. “Is the chap suf fering from delirium tremens?” "Oil. no.” tlie man addressed replied assiirlngly. "You see, lie's just through with Ills night's work on a morning newspaper, lie's n headline writer, you know, and after a fellow has scrib bled off headlines of 23 letters and spaces for about eight hours steady he contracts that linbit and can’t get over it. Every advertisement, every scrap of paper lie sees for several hours aft erward until Ills mind gets rested- well. he begins to count tlie letters and spaces and turn tlie wording into a headline that will tit. It Isn’t exactly delirium tremens. It's something worse. The headlines of 23 letters and spaces go wriggling around in that poor over worked brain much worse than snakes.”—Chicago Chronicle. SlKnntnre In nn Autoirrxilll Album ■ nd lhe Poet's Copy ot “I'lndnr.” Tlie Harvard library numbers among Its treasures an autograph of Milton and a copy of “Pindar” annotated in Milton's own handwriting, with mar ginal notes in Greek aud Latin. Both of these rarities were bequeathed to tlie university by Charles Sumner. Tlie “Pindar” is dated 1620 and was doubtless used by Milton during his stay at Cambridge university. At tlie end lie lias added an alphabetical Index in manuscript, occupying two closely written pages of all the authors cited lu iiis notes, with references to the pages In which their names occur. Milton's autograph Is found in the pages of au autograph allium or visit ors' book kept, according to a custom common In the sixteenth century, by a Neapolitan nobleman, Camillus Car- doyn by name, who resided In Geneva from 1608 to 1640, where Milton, ap parently, visited him. Another auto graph In tills same album among the hundreds which it contains is that of Thomas Wentworth, tlie unfortunate Earl of Stafford. Milton's signature is dated Jan. 10. 163'J, and is appended to a Latin motto—“Travel changes one's sky, but not one’s mind,” it may be freely rendered and a quotation from Ills own “Coutus:” “If Virtue feeble were, Heaven itselfe would atoope to her.” Tlie most uotable Milton manuscript known to exist Is a little book now owned by Trinity college, Cambridge, England, which contains tlie poet's copies of Ills so called minor poems, In cluding “L’Allegro” and “Il Pensero- so." In tills country, however, It Is said that tlie only original memorials of tlie great author of "Paradise Lost” are to be found In these two time stain ed volumes In the possession of tlie Harvard library. A Cement Which llealsts Aclil. In some branches of industry a ce ment which Is proof against tlie influ ence of acids is absolutely essential, and sticli a substance can be prepared by melting together one part of India rubber with two parts of linseed oil. Tills should be gradually Incorporated with three parts of white bole so as to form a plastic mass. This when heated softens but very little. Though ft does not easily dry upon the surface, when once set It Is not affected at nil by hy drochloric acid and but very little by nitric acid. Ils drying and hardening is materially promoted by mixing with one-fifth of its weight of litharge or minium. Not ■ Bnrgaln. “How much will you charge for mar rylng us, squire?” asked the stalwart bridegroom, painfully conscious of his new suit of ready made clothing. “I am entitled by law to a fee of $2,” replied the Justice of tlie pence. “Perhaps. Alfred,” timidly suggested! tlie blushing bride, "we might get It done somewhere else for $1.98.”—Chi cago Tribune. Marveled nt It. “Yes,” said Mr. Henry Peck, “1 like to go to the circus. One sees so many dar Ing deeds. For instance, did you ever see anything more reckless than the way In which the ringmaster cracks his whip at the ladles who ride the horses ?”— Balt I more A merlean. A Neighborly Dlxturbnnce. First Neighbor—Well, my daughter doesn’t play the piano any worse than your son writes poetry. Second Ditto-Perhaps not, but It can be heard so much farther.—Detroit Free Press. The desert of Sahara Is no little spot. It covers 2.500.000 square miles lie tween the Atlantic ocean and the Nile valley. The Romans built London about tin year 50 A. D., but London wall was not built until 306 a . D. A Serlona Complaint. What made you leave your place wif dat gemman?” asked Miss Miami Brown. "Didn't he pay you right?" "Yes,” answered Mr. Erastus Pink ley. “Ue paid fus’ rate, but Ills clothes was so out of style dat I was almost foliced to keep out of society.”—Wash Ington Star __ It Is said thnt nt present the new Ktenmshlp Celtic ennnot be loaded lo her utmost capacity? as she would in thnt crent probably ground on t’.e bar of New York hurlsir, where the depth at low water Is about 32 feet. A RARE VOLUME BY PENN Only Knott n Copy la Owned Clunkers In I'bllndelphln, by The only known copy of Penn's Issue of "Magna t'hnrta." published in 1687 by tlie Bradford Press. Is the property of tlie Meeting l'or Sufferings, a repre sentative body of tlie Friends’ yearly meeting in Philadelphia. Its title Is "Tlie Excellent Privilege of Liberty and Propriety: Being the Birthright of tlie Fri eborn Subjects of England.” The copy is not generally open to the public The peculiar significance of tills book is that a half dozen years after Penn founded his colony lie wished to have ■|:e colonists keenly realize that they i.nild have to stand for tlieir rights In ile new country as well ns the old, win re the) Imd been so cruelly perse cuted lie wrote this book In order that il ey miylit lie informed on the consti tution of tlieir local government and know what were the legal buses of tlieir rights ns citizens. Curiously enough tlie only proof there is timi lids work wns William Penn's is tlie statement made by Chief Instile David Lloyd In 1728. a great Quaker It .-itici who was Penn’s attor ney general at lhe time the book was issili tl Chit f .lustice Lloyd was also it that lime an Intimate friend of Wil liam Penn am! consequently knew whereof lie spoke. The volume «as reproduced in fac simile b^ tlie Plillobiblotl club ill 1897 l'or a limiteli number of subscribers, l he original volume, however, must al ways remain the rare thing that it Is, one of the best expressions of liberty under law that the mimi of the great founder could conceive.—Philadelphia Press. Ask for Our New Price List. The man is propermis who saves a dollar on this and a half dollar on that; the prices quoted in our new complete 4o-page list help you ill this direction. It pays you to deal where no false representations are made, but where goods are sold directly as advertised. Isn’t it much more satisfactory and much easier to sit down at home, lisik over the catalogue, select the goods required and mail your order, than to depend upon stores where the stock is small, as well as assortment incomplete, and get something that does not give half satisfaction, notwithstanding that you do pay an extravagant price? Smith’s Cash (Dept.) Store No. 25 Market Street, San Francisco. -L«. Weill dr I on’« Eudtiranee, Wellington on oib* < started, Sir Herbert Maxwell tells us. at 7 a. m., rode to u place 28 mil< s distant, here held a review and was back at the place from which he had started for dinner between 4 and 5 p. m., says Goldwin Smith In The Atlantic. Ho galloped 26 miles ami bnck to hoc whether damage hail been done to a pontoon train. He rode 17 miles In two hours from Ereneda to Ciudad Rodrigo, where lie dined, gave a ball and sup ped. was in the saddle again at 3 a. in., galloped back to Freneda by 6 ami was doing business again at noon, lie rose regularly at 6 and wrote till 9 ami after diuner wrote again from 9 till 12. It must be essential to every general and Indeed to every man who Is bear ing n heavy load of anxious business to be a good sleeper. Napoleon was n first rate sleeper; so was Pitt; so was Brougham; so was Mt. Gladstone; so was Wellington. At Salamanca Wellington, having given bls order for the battle, said to Ills ald-de-camp: “Watch the French through your glass, Fitz Roy. I am going to take a rest. When they reach that copse near the gap in the hills, wnke me.” Then he lay down and wns fust asleep In a minute. In the midst of the critical operations before Water loo, feeling weary, lie laid himself down, put a newspaper over his face and took a nap. For Exercise Why Not Wallet The best exercise In the world Is walking. A person who knows how to walk In telligently can get along without a gymnasium. No other form of exercise brings so many muscles Into play and develops them so normally. The most popular games are those In which walking forms a prominent part. Golf, croquet ami in a sense cricket anti even bicycling merely give nil excuse for walking. Every one knows how to walk prop erly. It Is because of carelessness that so many walk badly. The body should be carried erect, the chest well out, the head bnck, while the arms should swing freely at the sides. The pace should be regulated to one’s strength. Every one should walk fast enough and far enough to get the body In a comfortable glow. To get the best re sults from walking one should give his undivided attention to It. In other words, he should walk for the pleasure of It and uot carry worries with him. Excessive walking Is Injurious. Nev er walk Just after a heavy meal or aft- ter violent exercise. Anil after a walk It Is well to rest for 10 or 15 minutes before taking up severe mental work. BLAKE, MOEFITT & TOWNE Imperierà and Dealers in Book, News, Writing and W rapping... CARD STOCK STRAW AND BINDERS’ BOARD Äft-57-ru-H . Fl rat St. T« l . main 199. 33 SAN FRANCISCO. THE CUSTERS® I I |L vUU I LI I orsin Kle*ut low rates Country patronage solicited, and no pains will be spared to make them comfortable during Their visit. 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But we guarantee tlmt Café Bland contains less than fifty per cent coflee, which is scien- tiflcally blended with nutritious fruits mid grains, thus not only displacing over fifty l>er cent of the cati'eiii, but neutralizing that which remains and still retaining tlie rich coflee flavor. To those who sutler with the lieart, to dyspeptics and to nervous people Cafe Bland is especially recommended as a health ful ami delicious beverage, so satis fying that only tlie member of the family making the change in the eofl'ee knows there has been one. More healthful, richer and less ex pensive than straight coffee. Better in every respect, 25 cents per lb. Your grocer will get it for you. Ask for Lamb In Cither Cnne. One of the editors who read tlie man uscript of Henry Thew Stephenson’s “Patroon Van Volkenberg” thought After n Strnaale. tlmt the nutlior might be a good luuu “Geòrgie,” salti n fonti mother to a to know. Accordingly he wrote a little 4-year-old, “you must take the pleasant personal letter. Inviting a bet umbrella to school with you, or you ter acquaintance, and, ns one of tbo will get wet. It rains hard.” tests of companionable illness, inquired “I want the little one,” he said, whether the author preferred Lamb or Pronounced cat-toy—occent on last ay liable meaning tlie parasol. Milton. “No, my dear. That Is for dry weath Mr. Stephenson replied, acknowledg A sranacr. er. You must take this and go like a ing the pleasure the letter hail given Greene—They say that Senator Keen good boy.” him and saying: Geòrgie did as he was bid and got to "I do not know whether you ask if I er Is on tbe make. They even go so far school comfortably. like Lamb or mutton or Lnmb or Mil ns to say that that new house of his After school hours It had stopped toil best, but In either case It's Lamb.” wns given him in payment for bls raining, and Geòrgie trudged home Even tlie reflection on the editor's vote. Gray—It puts me all out of temper with the remnants of the umbrella tin band writing could i*t detract from the der his arm. editorial approbation of Mr. Stephen to bear such slanders! It is as far as "Oh, Geòrgie, what have you been son's choice, nptl new partnership possible from the truth! I know all doing with my umbrella?” said his of minds was immediately formed.— about It. It was this way: Some people mother when she saw the state It was Youth's Companion. who were Interested In a certain bill In. bet him that house that be would vote “You should have let me had the lit against the bill, and lie didn't and won Woald limber Smoke 1'bnn Eat. tle one,” said he. “This was such a "Otic day." writes an American in tbe house. That was all there was great otic It took four of us to pull It Havana. “I clinic across an old Cuban about IL The Idea of Keener’* living through the door.”—Leslie's Weekly. woman sitting disconsolately oil a rock open to bribery!—Boston Transcript near Mono ensile. She told me iu Mnssllnic lhe Oi, Adjourned t'nnnlmoa.ly. Spanish that for three ilays she hail One morning our washwoman, a lady bail nothing to ent but a loaf of brea Correspondent (approaching Irish ser of color—very dark color—came hastily anil coffee. She looked It. I gave her geant)—I am told, sergeant, that yon In and, without any preliminaries, ex a Spanish dollar and followed In her bail a skirmish with the enemy this claimed: "Sparatuallsm! What Is apnr- wake. She entered the first cafe she morning. atunlism. Miss Cora?” Sergeant—We did that, sor. came to ami bought a drink ami a ci My sister explained as well ns she gar. I couldn't help laughing to see her Correspondent—And did you come off could and asked why she wished to ns she walked along the stree'. puffing with flying colors? know. Sergeant—Floyin colors, is it? Be- away nt the weed purchased with my “Well, you see,” she went on excited money. She seemed perfectly content dad, it wasn't ownly the colors that ly. “Sarah—she's my daughter, you ed. The Cubans, even the women, was floyin, but I very mother's son of know, and she went last week to live would rather smoke than eat. They us in the bargain.—Boston Courier. with a lady what says she Is a sparatu- take only two minis a day. breakfast allst, and she says if Sarah takes any about lo o', Im !; and dinner nt 4 in the Don’t Believe All To« near. thing she'll know It. Sarah’s going to •ficrnoon." A man In a railway carriage was leave!”—Harper’s Magazine. snoring so loudly that bls fellow pas PiMCOHft' NoNta, sengers decided to awake him. One A < holce of Vowels. A curious preference r>< certain pi particularly sensitive old gentleman He—You women have such a ridlcu geons for tlie use of metallic objects In shook up the sleeper with a start. lous habit of screaming “Ob!” on every building tln-ir nests Is noted by M. “What's the matter?” be exclaimed. occasion. "Why, your snoring is annoying ev Maurice Dttsoller In The Revue Selen- She—And you men have such a ridic tltiqiie. lie assures us that several ery one in the carriage,” said the old ulous habit of saying "I" on every oc pulls of these birds that lie has observ gentleman testily. casion.— Indianapolis Press. “How do you know I'm snoring?” ed in Paris Imvr raised tlieir young In “Why, we can’t help but bear it.” nests made e itirely of hairpins! These I.oat Opportunity. “Well, don’t believe all you hear,” articles they collected III the paths of “And you didn’t hear of It?” Inquired the Luxembourg. Tbe young pigeons replied the culprit and went to sleep Mrs. Gabble. grew up normally ns they would In a again.—London Standard. "Not one word.” softer nest. M. Dusoller believes that “Why. I've known It for n week, so I there Is n useful suggestion In tills for When Cnlltornln Wax Cnknown. supposed everybody heard of It.”—Phil pigeon fanciers, who are often over In an old geography printed In 1815 adelphia Times. anxious. In- thinks, to see that their appears the following: “California Is a land. Last year the coinage of gold In the charges have soft material for their wild and almost unknown Throughout the year It Is covered with United States amounted to $107.937.- nests. dense fogs, as damp as unbcalthful. 110. bringing the total of gold coined The, Bntfn'l Vtmlr t'p. In the Interior are volcanoes and vast from the foundation of the mint to $2,- “Well ' s.-itd tie. anxious to pntcb up plains of shifting snows, which some 147.088.113. At the present rate that total will be duplicated within the next their qua: r. I of yesterday, "aren’t you times shoot columns to great heights. curious to know what’s In the pack This would seem nearly Incredible 20 years. age?" were It not for tbe well authenticated American material for the building of "Not vi ry ' his wife, still unrelent iccounts of tra velera.” railroads, tramways, etc., continues to ing repiled Imiiffvretitly. be exclusively employed In Mexico. Tbe deepening ot the St Lawrence "It's soinetliitig for the one I love The latest miler In that line plnced I d canal system has had other results best In nil the world." the United States amounted to n large than to allow the passage of ocean go "All I suppose It's those suspenders figure, for it wns destined for three ing freightage. Following In the wake yon s.nd you needed.”-Philadelphia lines of tramway around Medina, In the of tbe vessels sea herrings have made Press. state of Y m a tan. their appearance In Lake Ontario.
