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CHAPTER V.
M. Peyrae had just finished dressing
the next morning when the sound of a
girl's voice drew him to the window,
which was open.
Out In the garden, near to the box
hedge which divided the Maitlands’
grounds from the Abbotts’, stood Lia
na. She was stooping forward, play
ing with Sliver, Anna's beautiful grey
hound. In one hand she held a sort of
scarlet wrap, a fragile, silken, feather
weight tiling, which had proved too
warm for her shoulders. The other
hand was stretched out seductively to
the dog leaping after her. The scarlet
showed vividly against her white
morning gown, a little crystal buckle
flashed at her waist, and the sunshine
caught the waving hair, the pink
cheek, the white moving baud, the lace
rutiles at lier throat and wrist
For a moment only Peyrae stood still
and watched.
Tlie girl was yet playing with the
hound, when she turned suddenly with
a smile on tier lips, and there in the
full glare of the intoxicating June sun
light she met the man’s eyes for the
first time. A blind feeling of helpless
ness and indefinite longing ending
somewhere round her heart in a thud
jf
Indescribable
pleasure
passed
through her frame.
She pulled herself together angrily,
and the smile vanished. “Go down,
Silver," she said severely to the dog,
whose paw was making for her shoul
der. Clearly this was shyness pushed
to the verge of absurdity. She must
conquer the ridiculous feeling, must
speak.
“Good morning, monsieur. It Is go
ing to be a warm day, do you think?”
She nearly forced the words through
her lips, which had remained parted all
the time.
Peyrae did not hear the words. He
was studying the girl Intently.
"Pardon me,” he said, putting his
head on one side and drawing his eye
lids together as he concentrated his
gaze upon her. “People forgive paint
ers for personalities, and you don’t
know how much I should like to get
you on canvas, just as you are. the dog
and all.”
The blood Invaded Liana’s cheeks,
slowly at first; then, as she realized his
meaning, In a hot blaze of crimson.
“I do not aspire, monsieur, to be an
artist’s model.” She walked toward
the house with as much dignity as her
19 years were capable of.
But this was only the beginning.
That evening, as she was singing for
Mrs. Abbott In the drawing room, she
became aware that Peyrae was stand
ing with the group of people on the
porch and was looking In through the
French window. She threw back her
lovely head and sang with exultation.
“Even then,” she told herself after
ward, “I must have been loving him
without knowing.” She sang the old
Spanish ballad of the knight errant,
and when she came to the last lines—
Seme day more kind I fate may And,
Some night kisa thee—
she marveled at the beauty of her own
voice; her face flushed, Iter eyes spar
kled. She knew that she was doing her
best.
But evidently the artist had taken no
notice of that lovely young voice; it
was only her face that attracted him.
As they were getting ready for bed
that night Anna said:
“What have you done to our Invul
nerable painter? He remarked, when
he heard you singing awhile ago, that
he just tingled for Ills brushes. He
wondered If It would be possible for
you to-sing that same song In the same
way, unaccompanied, In his studio.”
This seemed a little too much. He
not only wished to use her as a model,
but be even wished to have her moods
and expressions subject to Ills orders!
Liana was perched upon a bedpost.
She was perfectly poised, her slender
limbs dangling tloorward. one arm
akimbo, the other behind her back.
Anna was reclining on an ottoman,
smoothing out her ribbon sash.
“Well," slie said, as Liana made no
reply, but kept on dangling her limbs,
“do yon think you can oblige lilm?”
Liana’s only comment was to tap up
on the heel of her right slipper with
the toe of her left.
“He says,” pursued Anna mischiev
ously, “that you have a great deal of
scenic effect about you, whatever that
means. I confess I’m not sure of the
term.”
"Neither am I.” Liana’s right slip
per landed many yards off across the
floor.
The next day she caught the obnox
ious, rude man stepping backward sev
eral times to get her In perspective.
Once he actually ventured to make a
tube of his hand. When he put It to
his eye and turned bls bead sideways,
screwing up one side of hfs face, Liana
couldn’t help noticing In spite of her
vexation that the corner of the lip
which was thus drawn up exposed
some magnificent white teeth. How
tures. Iler expression was so madden
ingly changeable aud exaiieaceut At
times It was marvelously like shot
silk. To get tbe effect be wanted she
must be strongly moved—moved, for
instance, as she had been by the sight
of tbe snnsei on the sea the other even
ing. Plainly one could not get sunsets
and seas Into the studio. But”—
Sapristi! He would do it. Why not?
He knew himself to possess a charm
for women, a charm that was all the
more potent because he had seldom
cared to use it.
Then it was that lie changed Ills tac
tics. He eeased fuming and fretting
at being thwarted In his will; instead
he looked at Liana with a compelling
tenderness in his eyes, and be spoke
to her in tones that were a more sub
tle music to her ear than any she had
ever beard. It was beneath Peyrae to
weigh life In the balance; he scorned
tbe idea that right and wrong should
enter into a man's calculations.
As to the girl, she was as unsophisti
cated in her comprehension of the emo-
tlous as the man was familiar and ex
perienced. She only knew that she sang
these days as she never before bad
sung and that she felt the need to sing
continually. She called It practicing
when she spoke of It, but it seemed
to her as If It were really taking breath.
However, Peyrae was as powerless as
ever to effect the one wish of Ills heart;
she would not sit to him. One day lie
studiously let fall some words about
his intended departure the following
week. He spoke to Liana alone, and
his face looked stolid.
The girl's heart bounded, then stood
still. It was some seconds before she
felt it beat again. A reckless determi
nation took possession of her.
“Why are you going?” she said. Iler
voice was cold, almost hard.
"Because I've notlilug to paint here,"
he answered curtly, “nothing that suits
me, at least.”
“Would you stay if you could paint
me?”
“Yes."
"Then stay,” she said in tlie same
dull tone.
He seized lier hands like a man be
side himself with joy. Bending over
them to drop a kiss, he whispered the
one word, “Darling!”
But to himself he said, “Fame and
fortune at the next Salon!"
That night, after Anna had gone to
sleep. Liana slipped out of bed and,
leaning her elbows on the sill of the
open window, she sat for a long while
letting the cool air fan her brow. Iler
ears were full of Peyrac's Infectious
tones, her pulses still throbbed with
his mesmeric touch. She reached over
to the dressing table and, taking up a
crimson rose which she had placed
there in a tiny vase, she kissed it pas
sionately. Peyrae had given It to her,
and In this wise: His artistic eye had
not liked the magnolia flower which
she hml carried about with lier that
evening; the milky whiteness had
brought out unpleasant tints In her
smooth skin. “The crimson suits your
Castilian beauty better, señorita,” lie
had said as he handed her the rose.
"Poor, dear Inocencio!" sighed Liana
lemurely, recalling this little Instance,
“fie never found fault with me and
the magnolia." But the sense of cap
ture was upon her. and even while she
felt indignant and resentful for having
been forced to yield about the picture
there was a strange sense of sweetness
In submission.
By and by In the alternate light and
shadow of tile trees down below a
small, red spark appeared, moving reg
ularly to and fro. but the foliage was
too thick for her to see it. It was Pey-
roe’s cigar. lie had just come out from
his studio, where he Imd been choosing
n canvas, placing It on an easel and
ill-ranging a model stand preparatory
to tbe first sitting the next morning.
Tlie appointment was for 9 o’clock.
The early light was the best. "I'll give
lier n half hour's grace,” he had said,
but punctually to the minute the han
dle of the door turned, and Liana wns
on the threshold. He turned quickly
to greet her.
She stood framed in the dark cur
tained doorway, her long dress caught
up round her In one hand, the other
resting slightly on tin1 portiere. It was
an attitude of grace and beauty, and
she looked upward at him with eyes
that were bewildering In their mani
fold lights. She looked at him appeal
ingly as n child, Innocently ns a girl,
proudly as a woman.
“Dearest.” he exclaimed, “could you
take that pose? Would it be too hard
for you ?”
The gentle beauty of that first word
pervaded the rest with a light of its
own.
“Try me and see," she raid, with a
soft exultation in her voice.
And when nt last tlie picture wns fin
ished it wns wonderful Indeed. Even
those Ignorant of the nrt of painting
could see thnt. Peyrae had decided
that his subject should be dressed In
queenly npparel. There were Jewels
on the slender shoe, from which the
wind about the door wns supposed to
blow the garments back a little, and
Jewels on her fingers mid nt her throat.
ever, she said:
“You ave extremely Impolite,” and
then, with a sudden fear that he might
compliment her on the effect of anger
on her face, she turned and left him.
It was with direct reference to the
advancement of his art that Teyrac set
to work to Interest and make friends
with Tiana. He found bls way beset
with difficulties, and at the end of a
fortnight he had to acknowledge that
he had made no progress at all. He
bad come to TwyeBsrt meaning to do
tome landscapes and sea views. But,
fudge, how flat they seemed now! He
was a portrait painter If anything, and
at last the gods had led him to a being
who appealed to the power within him
as no one yet ever had done. He must
paint this girl; by Jove, be must!
But, even supposing she consented,
there was a difficulty. The wonder of
her face was its expression—the way
the spirit gleamed through her fea
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She was wrapped in a rich cloak or
rather coat of strange cut. of that
dusky, rose sheen of which Tintoretto
alone seems to have mastered the yel
lowing tones, but which the brush here
had caught and riveted. However, it
wns the face thnt wns the wonder.
Tlie child, the girl, the woman-the
painter had put them all Into the love
ly eyes that looked out nt one from the
canvas.
When Peyrae had been working on
the face, his movements hnd been like
the dnrtlngs of a bird. He dabbed and
mixed Ids colors. scarcely glancing at
them. The sitter could even bear the
hurry In Ids breaths. In the quick
glance from the canvas to her fnce
and Inc! again there wns no sign of
aught except a workman's concentra
tion on his task. He was flushed, of
course, amt his eyes sciutillated, for lie
w.is realizing a long cherished dream
tn this glut of tori» and color ecstasy.
But Liana did not know-how could
slie?—wliat his emotion meant. The
thing which It all implied to her was
warming and swelling lier heart day
by day with a sweet, subtle Joy.
And so things might have gone on in
definitely Imt for a letter which Peyrae
received one day from Paris. In read
ing It he came upon an item of news
which agitated Idin greatly. Tbe words
of themselves, however, were nothing
startling—simply these:
“You recall, of course, that pretty,
blue eyed De Guerin girl that you used
to see a great deal of? Well, she has
come into possession of a fortune. She
was the ouly living relative of an uncle
or some one who died suddenly with
out a will. The law did tbe rest. I met
her driving today in the Bois de Bou
logne. You would scarcely have recog
nized your once shy. simple little coun
try maiden.”
The next day Peyrae was much con
cerned about getting a packing case
for canvas.
[ to be continued .]
The Nolee Hehl*.
The New Yorker contracts In time
what may be called the noise habit.
Noise with him becomes a dissipation.
His nervous system demands it. This
Is illustrated by the sensations he ex
periences when lie goes Into the woods
or mountains after a continuous stay
in the city for many months. His first
feeling is one of loneliness; something
seems to have suddenly gone out of his
life. Every tree seems to say, "Why-
have you been so hot and noisy, my lit
tle sir ." His sensations are somewhat
akin to those of a drunkard who lias
been under alcoholic stimulation for a
long time and suddenly has his drink
taken from him. Ills whole nervous
system feels the lack of the irritation
ami stimulation of the city noise, to
which it has become accustomed. The
stillness actually appals and depresses
him.
Tlie streets of New York are deep,
narrow channels, and they are growing
constantly deeper as tlie buildings in
crease in height. These large re.'lect-
ing surfaces on three sides of him
make the <■< million of the num in the
street like that of the workman who
suffers from reflected noise while he
hammers rivets on the inside of a boil
er.Munsey's Magazine.
Foor and Its Multiple ot Ten.
The number four was anciently es
teemed the most perfect of all. belny
the arithmetical mean between one and
seven. Oniali, the second caliph, said.
"Four things come not back—the spo
ken word, the sped arrow, the past life,
the neglected opportunity." In nature
there are four seasons, and the four
points of the compass.
Forty, a multiple of four by ten. Is
one of the sacred numbers. The pro
bation of our first parents in the garden
of Eden is supposed to have been -111
years. The rain fell at the deluge 4C
days and nights, and the water re
mained on tlie earth 40 days. Tlie
days of embalming tbe dead were 40
Solomon's temple was 40 cubits long.
In It were ten lavers, each four ctlbiti
long and containing 40 baths.
Moses was 40 years old when lie fled
into the land of MidInn, where he
dwelt 40 years. He was on Mount
Sinai 40 days and 40 nights. Tbe Is
raelites wandered In the wilderness 40
years. The Saviour fasted 40 days and
nights before entering upon public life.
The same time elapsed between the
resurrection and the ascension.
Didn't Touch Him Thnt Trick.
“That's a worry knowing animal o’
yours,” said a cockney gentleman to
the keeper of an elephant.
“Very." was the cool rejoinder.
“He performs strange tricks and han-
tlcs, does be?” Inquired the cockney,
eying the animal through bls glnss.
“Surprlsin!” retorted the keeper.
“We’ve learned him to put money in
that box you see up there. Try him
with half a crown.”
The cockney handed tbe elephant
half a crown, and, sure enough, lie took
It In his trunk and placed ft In a box
high up out of reach.
“Well, that is very hextraordinary—
hastonishing, truly!” said the green
one, opening his eyes. “Now let’s see
him take it out and 'and it back.”
“We never learned him that trick.”
retorted tlie keeper and then turned
awrfy to stir up the monkeys and punch
the hyenas.—London Tlt-B!ts.
The Deaervlna One.
Iloyt, with a playwright friend, wns
once witnessing the production of a
play—not Ills own—says tlie New York
Clipper. The leading man was well
known to be a poor "study,” and this
night was on very unfamiliar terms
with Ills part. Tbe voice of the prompt
er was continuously in evidence, though
this was overlooked, for tbe nctor was
a great favorite.
Just before the end of the act Hoyt
went out, but returned a moment later
Just as the curtain went down on deaf
ening applause.
“Who are they cnlling for?” he asked
of Ills friend, who answered by naming
tbe leading man, whom, to spare his
feelings, we will call X.
“---- 1 (This stnuds for a little swear
word.) I don't sec what they want X
for. 1 should think they would call for
the prompter.”
BUTCHERS ARE IMMUNE.
Meat D.-nh-m. It Is Said. Merer l>la
of Cons am pt Io a.
"Bute!- rs never die of consumption.”
The big man with his sleeves rolled up,
wielding the cleaver at the block, said
this as be threw a beefsteak on the
scale.
It sounded more like a trade supersti
tion than a fact, but so far as diligent
Inquiry has been able to discover It Is
true, although not generally known
outside of the meat chopping craft.
Butchers are no longer lived than
men in other walks of life. They are
subject to all the other Ills that human
flesh is heir to, but consumption they
do not have. So far as a reporter was
able to learn not a single case Is on
record of a butcher in this city being
afflicted with the incurable wasting of
the lungs which claims its hundreds of
thousands of victims annually.
The fact Is well known among butch
ers and Ims been often the subject of
their comment, alt hough none of them
can give a reason for It.
“No.” said a man who has swung
sides and rounds in Washington mar
ket for the last 20 years; "1 have had
rheumatism and typhoid fever and lots
of other things, but nothing lias ever
been out of gear with my lungs, and
the same Is true of every other butcher
In tills town. 1 know nearly all of
them, ami 1 never heard of one of them
having consumption. They don't drink
blood or take any especially good cure
of themselves either. I don’t know
why It should he so unless It’s because
the continual Inhaling of an atmos
phere of fresh moat Is strengthening.
“1 have often thought when hearing
<-f consumptives going to Colorado and
Egypt that I know of a climate nearer
home that would do the business just
as well. If they would stay in this stall
for awhile ami swing meat, they would
get well quite as quickly as they would
on tbe top of I’lke’s peak.’’—New York
Mail and Express.
DOGS.
There are nearly 200 distinct varieties
of dogs.
Foxhounds give cry. but deerhounds
hunt In silence.
The greyhound Is the only dog which
hunts by sight.
A pure bred stagliound never attacks
the head of his quarry.
Only In the temperate zone Is the dog
found perfect In courage and speed.
The Italian greyhound Is reputed to
he the most symmetrical of all animals.
Skye terriers have been known to
Jump into the river ami land hooked
fish, which they take carefully by the
back.
Eskimo dogs are capable! of drawing
a well laden sledge (¡0 miles in a day.
Tlieir harness Is of tlie lightest, only a
single trace and no reins.
Women Cannot II ohh Each Other.
Th<‘ old theory that woman Is man’s
helper seems incorrigibly well founded,
says E. S. Martin in McClure's Maga
zine. If the situation Isn't satisfactory
to her, there Is no help for It. for the
conditions it came out of seem to be
eternal. Women may vote. They will
be none tlie less man's helpers if they
do. They never will band together to
put man down and teach him his place.
They will push him ahead if they can,
they will pull him along when they
must, they will influence Idin enor
mously. as they always have done, but
they will never conspire together on
any very great scale to make him play
second fiddle. Some one lias got to be
master. Women In general will never
agree to have women bosses so long as
there are competent men for that use.
Kiifllr Ila n k I ii u.
Tlie Kaffirs have a simple method of
banking. Before setting out to trade
they select one of their number ns
tlieir banker and put all their money
in Ills bag. When an article Is pur
chased by any of those who are In
this combine, the price Is taken by tlie
banker from the bag. counted several
times and then paid to the seller, after
which nil the bank depositors cry out
to tlie banker in the presence of two
witnesses selected. "Y'ou owe me so
much.” This Is then repeated by the
witnesses. Tlie general accounting
comes between the banker and his sev
eral depositors when all tlie purchases
have been made, after which all the
natives go home.
Vary I lift Value» of
Fourteen oysters are equal to only
one egg Pea soup is nutritious, but to
live on It you would need a dally sup
ply of 24 platefuls. A purely vegetable
diet Is too bulky, yet it may be good
for the gouty and the obese. It Is true
that the Scottish peasantry, their coun
try's pride, are nurtured on oatmeal,
but It Is liberally supplemented by
milk national life Is a compromise.
You want the happy menu "between
the tiger pacing Its cage and the cow
lyiffg upon tlie grass.”-Dr. Hutchin
son’s "Dietetics.”
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The Strike...
“I have been often asked why rail
way engineers disregard their Instruc
tions and tbe warning signals along the
line of their road,” said the general su
perintendent of u railroad to a man,
“and I Imve summed it up that It Is hu
man nature fcr men to take ehnneea in
tlieir business and that engineers are
no exception to the general run.
"Sometimes they cannot give a satis
factory reason why they do so. 1 will
give you an authentic instance of this
habit which made me live 11) years in
30 minutes.
“On a road 1 was at the time connect
Timid Applause.
ed with wns a long trestle over a bay
During the earlier days of the reign
several miles in length, with a draw
bridge in the center. The draw had of Queen Vicf-'i a dramatic perform
ances were given at Windsor castle un
been opened, and as a tugboat was
passing through tlie bridge men beard der the management of Charles Kean.
The audiences being limited and stiff
the rumble of a fast, heavily laden
ly aristocratic, the applause was natu
passenger train as it struck the bridge
rally not especially hearty, and the
a mile away. Knowing that the red
comedians felt the absence of the more
danger signals were set with the open
demonstrative approval nianlfeated in
ing of the draw, they supposed that the
the regular theater.
engineer would slow up or stop, as
One evening the queen sent an equer
might be necessary. Instead, to their
ry to Mr. Kean to know if the actors
consternation, the train came along at
would like anything (meaning refresh
regular speed, and a frightful accident
ments), when the actor replied. "Say to
appeared Inevitable. They yelled to the
lier majesty that we should be grateful
captain of the tugboat to go at full
for a little applause when the specta
speed, and as the boat glided through
tors are pleased."
the draw In the darkness they exerted
Back went the equerry an<l conveyed
themselves to swing the draw Into the
the message. Al the end of the net
locking bolts before the train could get
there was a slight suggestion of hand
to the point where the rails separated.
clapping and exceedingly gentle foot
"The engineer, however, disregarded
tapping. James Wallaek, who knew
the last danger signal, a few hundred
nothing of the message sent Io tlie
yards from the draw, and came on. By
queen, hearing the mild demonstration,
a remarkable coincidence of time and
pricked up his ears and Inquired.
position the draw, which was of course
"What is that?"
In motion, swung so that the rails of
Mr. Kean replied. “That, my dear
the east bound track were In juxtaposi
Wallaek. Is applause."
tion with tlie west bound track, upon
"God bless me!" retorted Wallaek. "1
which the train was running, and the
thought it was some one shelling peas.”
heavy engine and one of the passenger
coaches, striking the east bound rails,
Th«* Promenade Stopped.
glided upon the draw and stuck there,
It is related of Captain Deering that
the remaining portion of the train be
once when he was in command of a
ing on the west bound track, making
steamer running from Portland to St.
almost a figure S of the coaches.
John, lie was utiabie to sleep on ac
"If the draw had moved the thirtieth count of the ceaseless tramp, trump of
part of a second faster or slower, the
some star gazing passenger on the hur
east bound rails would not have been
ricane deck overhead. After turning
opposite the west bound rails at the
and twisting In Ills berth for half an
very instant that the great engine
hour, nnd the tramping still continuing.
struck them, and a frightful disaster Captain Deering, enraged at the loss of
would have resulted. When I got out
his sleep, rushed out In his nightshirt
on Hie bridge a few minutes later, I and climbed the ladder to the hurricane
fully expected to find tlie train In the
deck.
bottom of tbe bay and the draw smash
The promcuniling passenger was
ed Into splinters. I discharged the en
frightened half out of his wits by the
gineer on the spot and asked him why specter in wlilie climbing up tbe lad
be had not observed the signals. He der, but was somewhat reassured when
admitted that he saw them, but could
the specter bawled out:
not give a satisfactory reason for fall
“Say, you; where are you going'.“
ing to observe them. He evidently took
“To St. John." replied tlie promennd-
his chances of finding the draw closed
er,
when he reached It.
“Got a ticket?" pursued the ghost.
"The engineer of today Is a sober,
"Of course 1 have."
steady, nervy man. especially on the
"Well. then, you confounded fool, go
fast express trains on the big roads. It aud lie down somewhere you needn’t
Is nerve that makes one man carry a walk all the way to St. John,” roared
limited express train through the dark the enraged Deering, and the prome-
ness of the night, fog. sleet and blind nader stopped, right there.-Baltimore
ing snow nt GO miles an hour. The sto Herald.
ries we rend about of nn engineer los
ing tils nerve after nn accident are
llow to neconie Wealthy.
largely fiction. In 27 years of active
In a New Hampshire city there
railroad life 1 have had but one or two dwells nn octogenarian physician who
men apply to me for a transfer upon in addition to his wide medical skill Is
the ground thnt their nerves had gone known far and wide ns a dispenser of
back on them for running the fast blunt philosophy. The other day a
trains.
young limn of his acquaintance called
“I have had men who have been flung at Ills office.
M feet over their tenders hi a head on
“I have not come for pills this time,
collision and bad n dozen bones broken doctor,” said the visitor, “but for ad
come to me after they had been dis vice. Yon have lived many years In
charged from the hospital and nsk to be tills world of toll and trouble and have
put back on tlieir old run. You see, they hnd much experience. 1 am young, nnd
begin tiring when they are about 18 or I want you to tell me bow to get rich.”
20, nnd the cab of an engine Is their
The nged practitioner gazed through
home. If they run Into a person or a his glasses nt the young man nnd in n
wagon load of people on the track, If It deliberate tone said:
Is not tlieir fault, they take n practical
"Yes, I can tell you. You are young
view of It; they have to. If it Is tlieir ami can accomplish your object If you
fault, we discharge them, nnd they can will. Your plan Is this: First, be Indus
take nny view of It they please then, trious and economical. Save ns much
for we do not wish In our employ care as possible nnd spend ns little. Pile up
less men. This Is true with all of the the dollars and put them nt Interest. If
big roads, nnd ns a result American en yon follow out these Instructions, by
gineers of today are about as model a the time you reach my nge you’ll be
set of men In tlieir employment ns can rich ns Croesus nnd ns mean as bodes.”
be found.”- Washington Star.
Buffalo Commercial.
Thing« Not Wanted.
A Crank on Clothe..
Dogs, pianos and typewriters are the
possessions most frequently advertised
for sale nt second hand, according to nu
advertising man. Cameras run these
three hard In the sale of things desira
ble to get rid of. and bicycles come
next.
Bicycles aud cameras would probably
head the list, so many people seem to
wish to he rid of them, but tlieir tenure
of advertising popularity Is usually
brief. Household furniture, horses nnd
carriages come next In the list Then
•cwelry, watches, sewing machines nnd
muslcnl Instruments.
Books are far down, almost tbe last
In the list. Folks who have them usu
ally seem to wish to keep them.—New
York Sun.
Sir Harry Poland, n British magis
trate noted for Ids brilliancy, wns al
ways careless in bls dress. Once his
family persuaded film to go to Poole
nnd order a fnshlonably cut suit. To
the chagrin of tbe household Sir Harry
looked more outlandish In the now
clothes than In bls old ones. Ills brotli-
er-ln-law went to see Poole about It.
"It Is not my fault, sir," the tnilor
assured him. "Every care was taken,
but how couhl we fit a gentleman who
would Insist upon being measured sit
ting down?”
Ami the only satisfaction tliat could
be obtained from Sir Harry Poland
himself later on wns the dry comment:
"Well, It's my business and not yours.
I like to be comfortable. I spend three
parts of my life sitting down, and I
preferred to be measured so."
We say of a man who lias no will
mastery. "He is ruled by his passions.”
The Charge Not Saataloed.
They govern him. not he them. Centu
“You say." pursued tbe chairman of
ries ago an Arab wrote. "Passion is a
the investigating committee, “that be
tyrant which slays those whom It gov
resorted to no bribery whatever during
erns.” It Is like tire, which once thor
the election so far ns you know?”
oughly kindled can scarcely be quench
"Yes. sir." refilled the witness; “that's
ed. or like tbe torrent, which when It Is
what I said. '
swollen can no longer lie restrained
"Dili lie not circulate several boxes of
with its banks Call him not n prisoner cigars'»“
who has been put In fetters by Ids en
“Yes sir tint them cigars wasn't
emy. but rather him whose own pas
bribes Here's one of them. You try It.”
sions overpower him to destruction.
— Detroit Free I’ress.
The Finlanders.
No northern people are hurdler or
more spirited tlinn the Finlanders,
with tlieir dear complexions and dark
blue eyes. In spite of tlieir harsh cli
mate they have the most healthful liv
ing of perhaps any of the northern
races and keep equal degrees of ro
mance, daring nnd good feeling In their
natures. You do not find Imagination,
force nnd adventure In a race without
A Ptisxler.
course, plenteous fare, pure nlr nnd
Sarins Heqalreo Character.
Tibbetts—So you do not believe In the
The faculty of saving money Is milch cleanliness.
J uki the Same.
emancipation of woman?
rarer
than the faculty of making It.
Augustus Hare tells this story In his
Burton Well. It is Just hero. Man is
Water.
autobiography of a friend who In some the superior being But how Is he go nnd It calls for the exercise of a higher
The ocean Is a huge spring, contain
ways was one of the most absentmind ing to show his superiority If woman is degree of good judgment and more self ing not only salt, but many other min
ed men In the world:
his equal? That's what I want to know. restraint. In a word. It require* more erals. In solution The Dead sen Is
character.—World's Work.
One day. meeting a friend, lie said: —Boston Transcript.
charged with such elements almost to
“Hello, what a long time It is since I've
saturation Only distilled water is pure
I’ensont <o»tnnira In trrlnnd.
seen you! How's your father?” “Oh,
She Did ■■ He Advised.
By distillation sea water Itself Is ren
A certain number of peasants in the
my father's dead." “God bless me! I'm
Hocus—Wliat happened when you dered drinkable, (bough not pleasant
wilder ami remoter districts of Ireland told your mother-in-law to tnlnd her
very sorry."
Tbe next year he met the same man still wear something like a national own business?
In Day. of Old.
Focus-1 don't exactly know When
again and Imd forgotten nil about It. so costume About Lough Mask plenty of
"The old Idea." said the lecturer,
began with: “Hello, what n long lime the lasses are to lie seen In picturesque I recovered consciousness. I was In tbe "was nn eye for an eye, a tooth for a
since I’ve seen you! How's your fa re<l petticoats Hint artists loved to hospital —Tit Bits.
tooth ”
bring Into tlieir sketches of Irish life
ther?” “Oil, my father’s dead still.”
“Yes." concluded one of his hearers, j
A sprinkling of (tie old high lints may
XX anted to Forant.
“and there wore no painless dentists In
One day recently a swarm of bees be seen. The older fishtp-tnen wear
Tommy—Paw. what relashnn Is my those days either
Detroit Free Press
took possession of the letter box at them, but the younger school slum such grnn'ma to you?
Kilbride. Ireland, and the rural post antiquated headgear, ns the English
Father - She's my mother-ln law,
There are lots of people who will not |
man was not able to collect the letters, peasant of today does the smock frock young mau. Now don’t remiud me of
take a dare to do anything except a |
ns the new tenants strongly resented — London Express.
her again while she is here.
dare to go to work — Atchison Globe
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any Interference.
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All the world knows that coffee in
excessive use is injurious. And yet
the coffee lover cannot stand taste
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lieen no happy medium lietween.
Café Bland fills the void with the
I test elements of both. It is richer
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.»renounced cat-fay—accent on last syllabi.
An Ex re Nt ion in China.
The poor wretches were mude to dig
a large square pit, and one by one they
were made kneel at the edge with
tlieir hands tied behind tlieir backs. A
Japanese officer stepped forward and
with the ordinary service sword drew
It back nnd forward over the poor
wretch’s neck, and then with a swift
blow It descended, cutting off the bead.
The next one was as successful, and
then came a terrible spectacle. The Jap
anese officer, after wiping Ills sword,
drew the back to and fro over the
poor wretch's neck three or four times
before he struck tbe fatal blow. Down
came the blade on the apex of the skull,
cutting about two Inches Into the neck.
The poor wretch fell Into the pit, the
Japanese officer climbing down and
sawing away at the neck until the head
was severed. Tlie heads were Immedi
ately carried over to the main road and
strung up on poles as ati object lesson
to the large number of Chinese who
were congregated around with blanch
ed faces.—Canadian Magazine.
Recipe» For llapplieM.
Happiness Is not to be procured like
hard bake in a solid lump. It is com
posed of innumerable small items. Tbe
recipes for its acquisition are simple,
and therefore we ignore them. Love
In ninrrlage, fidelity In friendship, af
fection between parent and children,
courtesy In Intercourse, devotion to
duty and perfect sincerity In every il
lation of life—those are the Ingredients
of a happy life. In the quest for hap
piness one could not do better than put
Into practice the precepts of the great
Persian: “Taking the first step with
the good thought, the second step with
the good word and the third step with
the good deed, I entered paradise.”—
Sarah Grand.
Alaska DrlftwooS.
No trees grow anywhere on the coast
of western and northern Alnska, and
yet these shores for thousands of miles
and tbe Islands of Bering sea are
strewn with Immense quantities of
driftwood. In places piled high on tbe
beach, bearing good testimony to the
work of the rivers. This drift Is the
salvation of the Eskimo, furnishing
him with fuel and material for houses,
boats and sleds. The entire northeast
ern half of Bering sea is very shoai.
less than 500 feet In depth, while tbe
southwestern half Is mostly about 12,-
000 feet deep.