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7— n n n u n n tt « « tt by GEORGIANA EVANS, tt u & u COPYRIGHT, 1900. BY OKOHOIANA BVANS. n n « n n tt » ITIlElt BENOIT and I were In the middle of our game of chess —he is good enough to say thnt I. the fool, play the best game of all the chateau's company when came the page of the Demoiselle Alys to say thnt his mistress followed upon him and hade us attend to speak with her. “Go tell thy mistress, my butterfly, that when sage ami holy men are in 1 began bravely enough, council”— when the arras parted behind the stripling and a rose, flung smartly, struck me on the mouth. Next came the Demoiselle Alys herself, carrying a great nosegay of her weapons. It be ing June and her birth month. She bore the seal of It on her cheeks and In her eyes, which were blue as pan ales, and clad In her green silk frock she seemed but another rose. For the Demoiselle Alys was the merriest of ladies. When she was no longer than my bauble, I held her upon my knee, and I remember that she laughed long before she learned to speak, though she learned that early too. She burst out laughing now because we stared at her. "Bauble, Balute!” cried she and flung all her roses at me. 1 went down on my knees to pick them up, and, Father Benoit chancing to smile at me, she turned on 1dm. “Thou, too—tonsure and coxcomb to gether!” And down he had to plump and help me remake the bunch. When It was complete, the Demoiselle Alys made us sit and stood before us, leaning against the chess table. See ing Father Benoit peering behind her to see that she did not disarrange the pieces, she swept them all into a heap with her little hand—all except the red king, which she held and turned round and round under the thoughtful gaze of her blue eyes. “Was it thou, fool, who wast playing with the red?" “No,” quoth 1. “ 'Twas the holy man yonder. The innocent whites were mine ever”— She turned to Father Benoit. "Didst ever think upon the red king, father?” “Only when I castle,” replied the priest, wondering at the seriousness of her tone. “Or when he is sore pressed," she went on slowly. “But ’tis strange how we choose our color and our king, not knowing if he be stern stuff, to tight well, or of the kind that cowers In a. corner. Was the red king winning, fa ther?” “No; he was losing confoundedly," 1 broke In, “and badst thou not come chattering hither I would soon have hung another bell In my cap.” She sighed and tucked the red king in the bosom of her frock. Then her fair little forehead cleared. “Now at tend, both of you,” she commanded. “I come on an affair of—of state. Re serious at once.” We looked ns serious as we could, looking at her. She smiled back at us. "Wit. beauty, holiness—what a coun cfl we make! We ought to contain great things.” "So we would wert thou down stairs again,” said Father Benoit. She made a little face at him. “Mgr. Motley,” demanded she of me, “tell me what is the Baddest thing In the world?” -"An honest man looking in vain for his price,” I replied. “Foolish as ever!” chirped the De moiselle Alys. “The saddest thing In the world Is a friendless maldeu.” “What dost thou know of such?” asked Father Benoit She sighed and laid the bunch of roses against her cheek, then held them out and looked at them. "They are faded already,” she mused aloud. ” 'Tis the same with every one I gather. Let It but lie a moment on my breast, and It Is withered. Sometimes I think they hate me.” “But if the flowers are not thy friends." said Father Benoit, "still art thou not friendless. Forget not thy father and mother and thy kinsmen.” "Well, then, I have friends!" she pouted. "But 1 can never have aught that I desire.” "1 never remember thy failing of thy Wish,” said Father Benoit quietly. "Then thou hast forgot the day I was & years old and the merchant came and opened his packs and I cried for the blue beads and was not let to have them.” “Trumpery things,” said the priest, "not Atting for a demoiselle.” “But I did not ask to be born a de moiselle!” cried the Demoiselle Alys. "And I cried for them so!” “Well, what Is It now?” I cut in, be ing out of practice In silence. “More blue beads or a puppet dressed in vel vet, or mayhap It Is my bauble? It goes equally well with motley or petti coat.” "Perhaps,” she said saucily, "It Is a new food I would like.” Having thus vanquished me, she grew serious and looked at us with strange eyes, soft and shining, and •hook her head, then dropped It "Dost wish me to shrive thee?" Fa ttier Benoit asked kindly, but she Ihook her little drooping head again. "Perhaps,” I suggested, “it Is the ad vice of worldly wisdom thou needest Come, I will teach thee retorts to take all the wind out of thy Cousin Isabel's Mils.” “I can make them for myself,” she answered, then looked up with bright ened cheeks and eyes. "Dost know my bower woman, Rosalind?" she ask ed of Father Benoit. He bowed as sent. "She Is In love, the foolish wench.” This time It was I who nod ded. "And she wishes to lie married,” .-oueluded the Demoiselle Alys gravely. "Well. It Is right to speak to me of It,” said Father Benoit. "I will read the banns on Sunday. Whom doth she wish to marry?" Our demoiselle looked at us with steady eyes. "The Sieur d’Audllly.” Now this Sieur d’Audllly was newly become the captain of monseigneur's arquebusiers and was as wild, evil nam ed and handsome a good for nothing as ever one could Anti In a year's Jour ney. Tales of his doings had come be fore 1dm to tlie castle, for he wns In deed but a stranger among us, and. though I took note that they more con cerned Ids conquests among the petti coats thau victories over men with good weapons In their hands, yet mon seigneur, who thinks all that Is in any degree a part of Ids family land so lie counted tills young blood) have virtues iu their very vices, liad said that here was the man to make a valiant fighter. An untried captain In truth he was. Monseigneur would not wisli Ids cnp tain and kinsman to stoop to his daughter's bower woman for wife. And yet. being penniless, and as I say, unstable, it would seem thnt even poor Rosalind was too good for him. "Truly bower women are become ambitious siuee my day. and striplings more modest," said 1. Father Benoit puffed out Ids lower lip and said noth Ing. "1 suplióse it Is not a matter of the rack to marry above one's station!" snapped the Demoiselle Alys. "No," 1 returned; "It is good to see an arquebusier with a tine alm,” for, ns 1 said. Rosalind was a good girl. Our demoiselle flu sited scarlet, and her blue eyes shone like angry stars. "Who dares say 111 of the Sieur d'Au- dllly?" "All France and the maidens'cheeks." said 1. "But I like to see thee defend thy kinsman.” "He Is not my kinsman!” she cried. "His father's slater married the broth er of my uncle's wife. That Is not kin dred." “No? It is well, perhaps, since he is to marry thy bower woman!" She looked angrily at me and drew In her breath hard, but did not answer me. “Father.” said she to the priest, "thou wilt marry them, wilt thou not? That is what I came to ask.” “What! What!” cried Father Be noit. "Thou art the maddest maiden! I marry thy father's captain to thy bower woman? Get thee back to thy roses and let me talk with thy father!" in a minute she was on her knees by his side, his hand in both of tiers and her blue eyes and cooing voice hard at In a minute »he mu on her knee» hy hi» »Ute. work. "Father, thou art cruel!" (As if he would consent!) "And they so—so much In love! Thou hast not tlie heart to refuse. 1 know. Didst thou not teach me my letters and my prayers and my catechism und I so good nil tlie while save, of course, when I wished to play! And I have asked so little of thee, fa ther. dearest. I know thou wilt not re fuse! And Ilion canst marry them in a minute, and they will never tell. And they they love each other! Father, when have I been troublesome before? Oh. thou shalt promise me this In slant!" “Oh. If 1 must. I must!" groaned the poor priest “Oh. thou art an angel and a dear!” she cried "I always said thou wert Indeed a saint! Ob. I will pray every night for thee to I m * made a bishop! Anil -and promise me thou wilt marry them this night!" We both started. "Of a truth,” said I, “thy Rosalind is not more hasty than a cat over the dairy sill.” “Tonight.” said Father Benoit, to show how vain ft was to try to corrupt him, “Is an utterly unsuitable, impos slble time.” "Oh, there, there!” cried he, blushing very red. “I promise—I promise to marry the dauphin to the kitchen maid and thee to the stable boy—only get thee gone out of this quiet place! Thou art the wlllfullest, most shame less maid! Get thee gone! I will make thee a discipline my next leisure!” “1 will go straightway!” said the De moiselle Alys, springing up, with danc ing eyes, shaking back her brown hair with a ripple of laughter. “Oh, but thou art a very dear! I will send thee a token tonight, and thou wilt And Rosalind waiting." "Am I to give away the bride?" I asked. "It will go hard If 1 may not attend the wedding of my very child.” She drew her brows together, but did not answer me. “Thou needest not fear, father; there will be horses wait Ing. and the next day who will know If they have-been married or not'd* “Truly, a Ane plan”’ I could not help saying. "And—and she will be very grateful to thee, father, all her life- ind—and— that is all I came to say.” The De moiselle Alys left us without another word, careless of the roses she bad let fall beside tlie rhess table. Only, as I held back the arras for her and uu- latched the door, she looked up at me, not unkindly, but in silence. 1 watch ed her little flgure out of sight down the winding stair before I came Into the room again, and then Father Be noit bad gathered up all the fading roses and put them <>u the table beside the huddled chessmen. "Shall we tlulsli the game, father?" "I have forgot how the pieces stood." "Besides, she hath taken the rod king.” “Very true,” and lie began to fumble his book of hours for the office of Tierce. “Rosalind," quoth I, "is a comely maid to look upon.” “I am not a fool to hear such things,” replied Father Benoit, very quickly for one Intent upon Tierce. "But It can do thee uo harm to hear that she Is a well conducted maid, but quiet.” He made no answer. “Well, father—a num can die but once—but lie can la* often whipped.” “I do not see how that concerns me,” returned Father Benoit, his eyes on his book. "Indeed, father," said 1, taking lip my bauble. "I wish with all my heart that Motley may have a wider wisdom than gown and scapular And. though a coxcomb in esse sits more lightly than a miter in posse, methinks one catches less cold on leaving it off”— [TO BE CONTINUED.] Noon, Not Adverb. When General Grant was In China, says a contributor to Short Stories, he Journeyed by water from ’1" -n-taln to Peking. One morning there was no wind, and the coolies, walking along tlie river bank, pulled the houseboat. They made little progress, and Anally tlie general called his Chinese servant and said: "Boy, why for these coolies no can walkee more fast?” "Must talkce lowder,” the boy re plied. The general, thinking the boy's mean ing was that lie should speak in a tone the coolies could overhear, raised his voice and repeated: "Why for these coolies no can walkee more fast?" To which tlie boy Imperturbably an swered as before. “Must talkee low lier.” Several times this dialogue was re peated. and General Grant did talkee louder, until he fairly shouted. At last the boy slightly varied bis response: "No 'caslon speak so high,” he said. “More better talkee lowder.” Our hero was jtist beginning to feel like Allee In Wonderland when a ray of light seemed to flash across tlie mind of tlie boy, and he rushed to tlie end of tlie boat, seized (lie captain's arm and. dragging him to General Grant, exclaimed: “This tuun belong [pidgin English for ‘is'J lowder; Just now can talkee lie.” General Grant saw the Joke. On Chi nese boats the captain is called "low- der!" THE. BIRTH OF THE MOON. partridge eggs . fthru (he Eurth Wa. a Spbara ot Lava. Molleu and Flattened. laid to Be More Natrlttoa. Than lh. Blrtla TUeuisel.ea. The earth revolves on Its axis once In 24 hours. Millions of years ago the day was 22 hours; millions of years be fore It was 21 hours. As we look back ward Into time we And the earth re volving faster and faster. There was a time, ages ago, long before geology begins, when the earth wns rotating iu S day <>l' live or six hours Iu length. Iu the remotest past the earth revolved In a day of about live hours. It could re volve uo faster than this and remain a tingle unbroken mass. It was at this time that the moon was born separated, broken off from the parent mass of the earth. Tlie earth was then n molten, flattened ipbere of lava. Its whole body was fluid. The tides, which now are small, superficial and. so to say, local, were then universal ami immense. They oc curred at short Intervals. The whole surface of our globe was affected. Ami the corresponding lunar tides in the Auld, molten moon were Indefinite ly greater still. Our <lny Is now 24 hours; the distance of the moon 1» now 240.000 miles. When our day was about five hours .long, the moon was In contact with the earth's surface. It had Just broken away from its parent muss. As tlie length of the terrestrial day Increased, so did the distance of the moon. Tlie two quantities are connected by In exorable equations. If one varies, so must tlie other. Whenever tlie rotation time of a planet Is shorter than the period of revolution of Its satellite, the effect of their mutual action Is to ac celerate the motion of the satellite aud to force It to move in a larger orbit— to increase its distance, therefore. The day of tin* earth is uow shorter than the month tlie period of revolu tion—of the moon. Tlie moon Is there fore slowly receding from us, and it has been receding for thousands of cen turies. But tlie day of the earth is, as we have seen, slowly growing longer. The linger of tin* tides is always press Ing iifion tlie rim of our huge flywheel ind slowly tint surely lessening the »peed of Its rotation. So long as the terrestrial day Is shorter than the lunar month, the moon will continue to recede from us. —Professor E. S. Hol lon in Harper's Magazine. "Few person* areaware of the fact," said a well knowu physician, "but it I- true, nevertheless, that tin* < gg * f ’I* partridge is one of the mu.-1 nutritious things In the world. They are uut used for eating purposes except In very rare eases, nnd then it generally happens In remote rural districts. I have knowu negro families In the state of Louisiana during tlie laying season to live on the eggs of partridges. And they would flourish handsomely and grow fat on account of the rich properties of the egg». "These eggs, of course, never And their way Into tlie market because they are never taken from their nest except by such persons as I have mentioned, ami they rob the uests, 1 suppose, be- cause their principal food supply comes from this source. Quail meat comes pretty high In the market at all times, and the uverage man will find It more profitable to spare the eggs and wait for the birds when the bunting season rolls around. These men would pass 100 nests in one day without disturbing an egg. The sport of hunting the birds Is an additional Incentive. “The average negro doe» not care so much about tills aspect of the ease. He figures that the white man, having the best gun and the best dog, will beat him to the bird. So lie goes after the egg. One partridge will lay anywhere from 12 to 20 eggs, and a nest Is a good And. 1 know of many families in rural sections who feast ett these eggs in the laying season. I have tried the egg myself1 as an experiment. I found It peculiarly rich. It lias a good flavor. Is very palatable and In fact Is altogether a very tine thing to eat. Really I be lieve that the egg lias more nutrition In It than the fully developed bird, but of course, as one of the men fond of the game In the field, I would like to discourage the robbery of the nests.”— New Orleans Times-Democrat. HUSTLING FOR BUSINESS. More or l.eaa oi It Done In Xtw York l.awyera* ortlces. "Get a move on! That’s the great modern motto,” said n New Y'ork law yer who lias been practicing In the local courts lor the last 23 years. "When I was admitted to the bar,” | lie went on. "there was a great idea of SIMPLE REMEDIES. the dignity of tlie profession. A law Diluted ammonia Is good for Insect yer would about as soon have paraded bites and stings Broadway carrying a sandwich sign A raw egg swallowed at once upon calling attention to his legal ability as getting a fishbone in the throat beyond he would have thought of bustling m tlie reach of the linger, It Is said, will any other way for business. The thing to do was to rent an office aud sit in it dislodge It and tarry It down A simple remedy for indigestion Is until somebody came and dug you out tlie white of an egg beaten to a stiff of the dust and spider webs and asked froth ami stirred into n wiueglassfitl you to take a case. "The march of progress has changed of cold water. This should lie taken all that. Every law Arm iu this city lifter each meal. For burns ami scalds, when no other hustles for business. 1 don't mean lemedy Is nt hand, try tin* effect of a that the big men of the Arm chase piece of rag steeped In vinegar aud around after clients. Of course they bound round the sear. This Is espe don't. But the Artu does a lot of cially useful when cooking, for the shrewd plaunlng ahead. It schemes in a particular fashion of Its own to widen vinegar Is generally at hand. To cure a severe case of colic take a its sphere of usefulness—to itself. "Of late years one of tlie expedleuts t< aspoonftil of salt In n pint of water* drink and go to lied. This is one of the adopted has been the taking into the speediest remedies known. It will also lirm of young college graduates who prove efficacious In reviving a person can give a reasonable guarantee that who seems almost dead from a heavy they will bring business. College uieu know of this custom, and many of fall. them shape their life at the university Pulled Lincoln’* Hair. accordingly. They are after friends. Prepnrlnic For a Journey. While »Mr. Lincoln was living in Jerome K. Jerome recalled, with They want to be popular. They want Springfleld a Judge of the city, who reverence, a habit of ids methodical to be able to 'swing' as much of the was one of the leading and most in uncle who, before packing for a Jour future legal business of their fellow fluential citizens of the place, bad oc ney, always "made a list" This was graduates as they cau. casion to call upon him. Mr. Lincoln (lie system which lie followed, gather- "A chap who can bring business of was not overparticular in ills matter of that sort is taken iu on a good salary ed from his uncle's own lips: dress and was also careless in his man Take a piece of paper and put down even when lie Is the veriest tyro nt ners. The judge was ushered Into the on it everything you can possibly re law. He's expected, of course, to do parlor, where lie found Mr. Lincoln quire. Then go over It aud see thnt It what real work be can and to study sprawled out across a couple of chairs, coutains nothing you can possibly do hard. But the salary Is for the [mil lie reclining at his ease. The Judge was can exert over Ills fellows.” New York without. asked to be seated and. without chang Imagine yourself In bed. What have Sun. ing his position in the least, Mr. Lin you got on? Very well; put it down, Tempting Fate. coln entered Into conversation with together with a change. You get up. “No, thunks,” said the sad faced man bis visitor. What do you do? Wasli yourself. While the two men were talking Mrs. when he was asked to join a convlval What do you wasli yourself with? party. “The fact Is, I don't drink. Lincoln entered the room. She was Soap. Put down soap. Go on till you of course greatly embarrassed at Mr. Found I couldn't afford It. ««> 1 swore have finished. Then take your clothes. off. A number of years ago I lived in Lincoln’s offhand manner of entertain Begin at your feet. What do you wear ing bls caller, and, stepping up behind the west. I was doing well, anil 1 had ol your feet? Boots, shoes, socks Put her husband, she grasped him by the a bank account that 1 was proud of. Hum dowu. Work up till you get to hair and twitched bls head about, at Seeing a chance to double my money, 1 your bead. What do you want besides the same time looking at him reprov decided to draw It out. The day was • clothes? Put down everything. ingly. warm one, and, becoming thirsty. I This Is the plan the old gentleman al stopped to take a glass of something Mr. Lincoln apparently did not notice ways pursued. The list made, he would the rebuke. He simply looked up at bis cool. 1 didn’t waste more than Ave go over It carefully to see that he had wife, then across to the Judge and. minutes and was soon in line at the forgotten nothing. Then be would go without rising, said: paying teller's window. Tlie party over It again and strike out everything “Little Mary, allow me to Introduce ahead of me received liis money, and I It was possible to dispense with. Then you to tny friend. Judge So-and-so.” was shoving my cheek through the It will be remembered that Mrs. Lin be would lose the list. window when tlie teller pulled it down coin’s maiden name was Mary Todd and announced that the bank lias sus The Backslider. and that she was very short In stature. pended payment. I believe that the “Many years ago," says the Provi receiver declared a dividend a year or —Leslie's Monthly. dence Journal, “In a village not 2<> so later, but the amount was so small miles from Providence a revival was in that I never bothered to collect mine. neicalnlina a Clock. It Is not. of course, possible to seize progress. A young man, one of indis It was a pretty expensive drink for hold of the hands of a clock and push tinguishable twin brothers who had me." them backward or forward n tenth or previously been observed, as was sup "Do 1 understand, sab,” said a Ken a twentieth part of a second, which Is posed, in an attentive attitude nt the tuckian who wns present, “that you meeting, rose for prayers, walked to about the limit of error that Is allowed took that drink alone?" at the Greenwich observatory, so an the anxious seat, and there walled and "Certainly." other method is devised. Near tlie pen n.oaned to such good purpose that the “It was the Judgment of heaven, dulum a magnet is Axed. If It Is found deacons were sure he was on the high sail," remarked the Kentuckian sol road to salvation. ’ that the pendulum Is going either too emnly.—Detroit Free Press. The next day be tvas overheard In fast or too slow, a current of electricity the back yard at home chopping wood Is switched on, and the little magnet An EoKllah Cnnnlry Bank. begins to pull at the metal as It swings and swearing painfully at a refractory Rural customers attach great Im to and fro. It only retards or acceler leg. When remonstrated with for Ids portance to the batik's outward ap ates the motion by an infinitesimal sudden backsliding, he merely said, pearance. A thrifty tradesman having fraction of a second each time, but it “Oh, brother Jim couldn’t go to the opened a deposit account with a bank keeps the operation up and In n few meeting last nlglit, so I went nnd hol distant sone .'Mi miles from bls home, thousand swings the tenth or the twen lered for him.” the cashier had the curiosity to ask tieth part of the almost invisible error why he traveled so far when there was Meant What It Said. Is corrected, thus making the clocks a branch of the same bank almost nt "No,” said the Impecunious one, “yon his door. The depositor smiled know "keep step" at the proper Instant of can’t believe all that you see In th« ingly and replied, "I lodged opposite time.—London News. newspapers." here all the time while this bank was "Are you prepared to specify?” the being built, so I know It's safe." Bal Thirteen Huies In Coin«. “1 have never been able to compre other man asked. ance sheets to the rustic are a mean “1 am. I snw a statement In the ingless aud arbitrary arrangement of hend,” said a veteran numismatist, “why bo many Americans should be financial columns that.money was easy, figures. Iron bars he understands. lieve that a vast amount of 111 luck cen but when I tried to negotiate a loan I In a northern city there Is n bank found that the reverse was true.” ters around tlie number 13. widely known for the artistic merit of “You misunderstood the paragraph. Its doors. Designed by an eminent "The commonest of all our silver coins Is tlie 25 cent piece. In the words It didn't say the people were easy.”— sculptor, they are executed In relief quarter dollnr’ are 13 letters. Thirteen Judge. In copper or bronze nnd appear to rep letters compose E I’luribus t'num. In resent tableaux from “»Esop’s Fables” Too Snrglral, the tall of the eagle are 13 feathers and A little Lewiston boy at Old Orchard and Greek li'story. About a week aft in the shield are 13 lines. There are 13 who has long, curly hair was told by a er they were unveiled nn old man who stars and 13 arrowheads, while If you lady that he ought to have ft "shin had been a depositor for many years will examine the bird through a micro- gled.” withdrew bis balance and took It to a trope you will And 13 feathers In bls "Shingled! 1 guess not,” was his re rival bank nlmost opposite. Question wing.” ______ ply. "I ain’t going to have nails drove ed as to Ills reason for changing, he replied: “I don’t hold wl’ them doors of One Kansas law says the persona) In my head!”—Lewiston Journal. theirs. Punched tin ain't businesslike, property of a dcail man, when not and it ain't safe.”—Longman's. Iler Doubt. claimed by relatives, shall be sold nr Mabel—What do you think of the auction. Many a man has found, after mixing Rev. Dr. Leach's Idea that there will politics with his business, that he has Prudence is common sense well be few If any men in heaven? Maud —Huh! 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Snails na Window Cleaner«. “An old colored woman sellingsnails," »ays the Philadelphia Record, "occa sionally make» her appearance lu South street, and sometimes she may also be found along Front street or Second street, up in tlie district that used to be known'as tin* Northern Liberties. She carries an old basket In which the snails repose on freshly sprinkled leaves. These are not sold ns food, but for cleaning the outside of window panes— an old practice still In vogue In Ken sington. The snail Is dampened and placed upou the glass, where It at once moves around and devours all Insects and foreign matter, leaving the pane as bright and clear as crystal. There are old established business place In Ken sington where the upperwindows, when cleaned at all, are always cleaned by snails. There Is also a fine market for suails among the owners of aquariums, as they keep the glass clean and bright.” 121-IiiU l>avts>t., Sun Fi-itnelsoo. General Commission and Produce. 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More healthful, richer and less ex pensive I han straight cotice. Better in every respect. 25 cents per tt>. Your grocer will get it for you Ask for For Popovers. The value of a recipe lies partly in Its being accurately set down mid fol lowed. Harper’s Magazine Ims the fol lowing directions for making a break fust delicacy-called popovers, as they were Imparted by the Chinese servant to a lady visiting In the family. "You tnkee him oue egg." said the master of the kitchen, ‘'one lit' cup milk. Yon flxee him one cup flou' ou sieve, take pinch salt- you not put. him in lump. You move him egg lit' bit slow-; you put Idin milk in, all time move. You makee him flou' go in, not move fast, so have no spots. Makee but’led pan nil same wii'm, not too hot. I’utlee him in oven. Now you mind you business. No llkee woman run look at him all time. Him done all smile time biscuit." Clerical Sore Throat Eiplalnrd. Deacon Scrimp Humph! Think you have got to have a vacation, eh? Struggling Pastor—Yes, the doctor says I must go off until this cough Is cured. Deacon Scrimp—Well, I’d like to know why preachers are always get ting bad coughs. Struggling Pastor—Well, you see, we have to visit around a good deal, and we are always asked to hold a little service before leaving, and I think out throats become affected from breathing the dust that Illes from the family Bibles.—New York Weekly. l’ronouuccd caf-fuy—accent on last syllable. ! , i | Dancer In Damp Paper. Most of the paper uow used Is made from wood nnd other vegetable libers I which are chemically not very differ ent from the material of which n liny rick Is composed. Consequently If pa per Is stacked damp heating is likely to take place Just as It does with prematurely stacked hay, nnd at any time flames may burst out as the re 1 suit of s(xintnneous combustion. The Hoartleaa Dragglat. Animal lulrlllg.nrt, In a circus in I’arls a lion was given some meat shut up in a box with a lid to It. and the spectators watched to see whether the lion would open tlie lid or crack the box. He did the former, much to the gratification of the com pany. In the London "Zoo” a large African elephant restores to bls would be enter-’ tainers all the biscuits, whole or broken, which strike the bars aud fall alike out of bis reach and theirs In the space between the barrier and bls cage. H<* points Ills trunk straight at the biscuits and blows them hard along the floor to the feet of the persons who have thrown them. He clearly know» what he is doing, because if the bis cuit does not travel well he gives It a harder blow. Flossie Banastar Fred, what is thnt ; the pafters say the butcher uses? I Prrfnmet Were ropnlar, want to keep dear Fldo's meat from The rage for perfumes reached Its spoiling. height during the reign of Louis XV. Brother Fred—Formaldehyde. Flossie- That Isn't what the druggist Throughout the continent bls court was known ns the "scented court.” It was told me. then the custom when giving a large Brother Fred—What did he say? Flossie- Prussic acid. —ludianapolis entrt*talnment for the hostess to inform her guests what particular odor she News. would use for perfuming her rooms, "Oh, mamma,” exclaimed four-year- nnd each guest would use that odor In old Bessie, looking up at the starry making her toilet. At court a different skies one evening, "what a pretty place perfume was used for each day of th» heaven must be wlieit It Is so beautiful week. Much more attention was paid to the use of the perfume than to soap wrong side out!” aud water, and cleanliness was not You rob yourself ofteuer thau other» numbered among the virtues of that age. rob you.