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When pressed for instances of Hetty’s behaving queer, she cited various acts of household stupidity which, it seemed to me. were no more than what many mistresses find in their servants. It was true, however, according to the mistress' statement, that Hetty seemed to have a morbid passion for reading all about murders, suicides and crimes general ly. She had read about Edna’s death aud spoken to her mistress about it, saying she was going down to the musee on her very uext afternoon off to see the place where the girl had died. Her mistress did not believe she hnd probably Intended to kill herself when she went down, for Hetty bad been talking only that morning cheer fully about certain plans for the next few days. She presumed that when Hetty fouud herself on tlie same spot where Edna bail killed herself and saw that she was alone a sudden insane impulse to kill herself, as Edna had i done, seized her, nnd she straightway plunged the dagger Into her neck After tlie seeoud tragedy Mr. Miller caused a watch to be set In the room where Othello wns, and visitors no longer found themselves alone in the room. Whether it was that the pres ence of the guard proved effective or that there were no more foolish or crazed women to take their lives, sev eral weeks passed without any unusual event occurring at the musee. The vigilance of the guard was re laxed, and finally, as Mr. Miller did not feel that he could afford to pay a man for staying in Just one room ns a guard, he was withdrawn. The memory of tlie two strange dentils had probably aliout faded from the public mind when a third, even more startling, occurred. 1 remembet the day well, for It seemed to bring with It a series of accidents, big and little, that culminated in the tragedy which 1 shall relate. In tlie first place, I discovered that I had laid my pocket picked on tlie way to the musee that morning. The thief had taken my pocketlMiok. eoutalnlng $7. Tlie sum was not large, thougli It meant consid erable to tne, mid I was much an novetl. ( to be continued .) HE wax figures at the mu before G o'clock, when the visitors at see were an indifferent lot, the musee had almost left, one of the ns a rule—that is to say, employees of the place named Mur they were neither better phy came rushing out to the ticket of nor worse than the average fice with a scared white face. that you will find In such places. "Tlier But ’s a girrl committed suosoide the Othello In our unique group of up by group thlrrteen!” he cried. Shakespearean characters was a mas "She’s a-loyin Hat on the floor. 1 saw her with me own oyes.” terpiece in wax. I thought very likely Murphy was The reason that It happened to be dif ferent from the others was because it mistaken and that a woman had mere was newer. The one first made for ly fainted. The wax Images some the group met with a disaster a few times affect people that way, especially months after being installed. A slight the more grewsome figures. Group 13 blaze occurring In Its vicinity melted was the Shakespearean group, how the wax features and ruined them. ever. and there was no image there to The rest of the group were not harmed affect one unpleasantly unless Indeed beyond repair, but a new Othello had the extreme lifelikeness of the Othello to be made. The order was given to a might give a sensitive person a queer certain local worker iu wax and not to feeling. But 1 followed Murphy up the one who made the original Othello. into the room where the group stood, This man must have been a genius, for and Mr. Miller, who came out of his when the figure came to the musee and little office as we were passing, went was placed In position it was the most witli us. lifelike thing In wax that I have ever It was a startling sight that met our seen, and I have seen some very excel gaze. i he room was deserted when lent wax counterfeits of men and wo we entered by all except the mute ami men. It made poor Desdemona and motionless Images and by one other her old father. Senator Brabanlto, figure, equally mute aud motionless, look cheap and tawdry by compari Ij iug on the floor directly In front of son. There was much to criticise In <;thello. It was a young woman, not the pose, I think. Othello was suppos much over 20, of comely form and ed to be relating Ills adventures to the features, but of the servant girl class, old man and his enamored daughter, it would appear from the cheap finery and to my mind there should have been that she had on. Down where the animation In his attitude and man white throat thickened toward the ner. Instead of that, the figure was plump body was nil ugly wound, and shown seated in an easy, not to say in the girl's dress was stained crimson dolent, attitude. Its verisimilitude to by the copious flow of blood. She was life consisted In Its marvelous me quite dead when we reached her, and chanical or technical composition. Its on her face was a singular look of hor maker was a genius, no doubt, but not ror. On the floor beside her, with an artist, at least not In the highest blade nil bloody, lay the Jeweled dag sense. It was a very Othello taking ger of Othello. It appeared that the his ease, but scarcely Shakespeare’s suicide had lingered late till the last Othello recounting his deeds of war to of the visitors had left and then his ladylove. It seemed that way to drawn Othello's dagger from its me anyway. I don’t know that it sheath and with It loosed her lifeblood. As we lifted the dead girl up and struck the a\*»rage observer so. People would come and stand before the group bore her away to Mr. Miller’s office 1 admiringly, and I have never heard a recall how curiously I was impressed word of criticism such as I have ex by our surroundings. One of life’s pressed by one of them. Tills may be startling tragedies had Just occurred, partly because they were lost In won yet all these counterfeit men aud wo der and admiration of tlie lifelike ap men around us remained impassive, pearance of the Moor and partly per uninterested, indifferent. It seemed as haps because the more cultivated if those figures should have started classes, persons competent to criticise up and crowded forward to see the in A Qrurrnl Theory ot Machines, such tilings, seldom visit exhibitions animate thing we were bearing away Iu the Comptea Ilendus of the Paris of waxworks. You may be led to won or should have turned away and hid Academy of Sciences M. Koenigs lias der how I, one of the employees at the den their faces from its horror—done printed a sketch of a general theory of musee, should be able to criticise thus anything, in fact, except to keep their mechanisms. Every machine consists Intelligently, aftd in reply I may say positions, mute, cold and unmoved. 1 of a number of material bodies, re that I was not always reduced to so saw all the figures remained Impassive, sistances, Jollied together reciprocally, lowly a plane of life. I came of an ex and yet, to my disordered fancy, as I upon which natural forces act to pro cellent family and In my younger days glanced backward, it seemed almost duce a desired effect, and the effect received good training in both art and as if the eyes of Othello were follow may be either a state of rest or one of literature. I fell In the social scale on ing us as we bore the girl away. You motion. The resisting bodies nnd their account of— But, there! I will not have seen the eyes of a portrait follow connections are tlie mechanism. Its ef you in that same way. enter Into that. fect is not known until we deline the The police were notified of wliat had acting forces, '¡'lie same machine will This Othello was so good a counter feit of life that we used to chaff Julius occurred, and they took charge of the produce different effects according as Pompey Caesar, the musee's colored body, removing It from the musee different forces play upon it. factotum, between whom and the wax some time that evening. It was not till Machines are subject to three ef en image there certainly was a re the next afternoon that we learned fects static when the forces produce markable likeness In features, with much about the girl. The afternoon equilibrium; kinetic when tlie result Is being Othello’s twin, and we some papers then stated that her name was motion, and, finally, dissociative when times called him the Moor, or Ctcsar Edna Nethersole, that she was a serv tlie connections of the machine are the Moor. He never seemed to take ant employed on Forty-second street changed. The latter effect is usually ft amiss, but, on the contrary, I think, and that site had taken advantage of not considered, but It Is esscntlul to was quite proud of the title and the re her Thursday afternoon off to visit the take It Into account, a machine could semblance. He partook In large de musee. No one suspected tlutt she had not be built, In the first place, unless gree of the vanity of his race, and I any Intention of taking lier life, so the It was capable of dissociation. In some think he felt gratified and flattered at papers stated. She was of an un machines locks, for Instance—the parts having so good an Image of himself on usually cheerful nature, her mistress are dissociated every time the appa said, and when she left her that aft public exhibition, Just as a vain man ratus operates. It Is desirable to de might at having Ids statue in bronze ernoon site had appeared to be In her sign most machines, however, so that or marble erected in some prominent usual good spirits. She had uot men the dissociative effects do not come in place. Perhaps his flame of vanity tioned that she Intended to visit tlie to play during their operation. was fanned by noting the admiration musee, but there was nothing unnat of spectators who came and stood be ural in that, for It was uot her habit Beware of tlie Cold Hath. fore the wax Othello. This admiration to tell where she was going. She had The cold bath in the morning Is not was particularly marked among wo a lover named Ole Nelson, aud here men—servant girls and girls employed was a possible cause for her act. It so popular as It was formerly. There In shops and factories. Their excla seems that the lovers had quarreled Is much energy expended in the re mations, their "Ohs!” and “Abs!” were the evening before Edna's fatal visit action nnd Just at the time of day expressive of much genuine admira to the musee. It had been n lovers’ when this energy Is at its lowest ebb. tion, thougli I had doubts If It was so quarrel and In nowise different from Then, too, cold water has very little much the lifelikeness of the image that others before it. Edna was Jealous of cleansing effect. Very hot water elicited them as the barbaric splendor Ole’s attentions to another girl and stimulates the nerves, which Is the ef of Othello’s dress, the rich robe and had upbraided him about it. They fect that we are seeking from the cold Jeweled trappings. Certain it is that had parted in temper, but poor Ole, water, while it does not demand the when I observed these exclamatory who was nearly heartbroken over his energy of reaction of the latter. The creatures their eyes would more often sweetheart’s death, had never dreamed duration of the morning bath should be wandering over the apparel of the that Edna would It’ll herself on ac be ns short ns possible—hardly longer Image than remaining fixed on the count of it. But. as no other reason for than the mere application of the water singularly human face, and it is also her act was found, this had to be ac to the skin, followed by a brisk rub certain that If Ciesar, who was every cepted as tlie cause. The verdict of bing. However, many prefer a cool whit as handsome as the Imaged Moor, the coroner's Jury wns that she met sponge bath In the morning, and If this Is followed by a warm glow nnd a happened to be standing near In a death at her own bands. After the papers had made public feeling of well being it certainly Is ( commonplace nineteenth century garb he received no more than a passing the affair there was a noticeable In beneficial. Many people are not strong glance from these same emotional crease of attendance at the musee for enough to react well. A hot bath at maids. And Caesar would often be a few days, and visitors, after finding night is most cleansing nnd restful. standing there when bls duties would where the Othello stood, would remain Genernl bnthing must be regulated by permit. I suppose be felt that he was gazing curiously at tlie spot where the Individual peculiarities. — Emma E. receiving admiration, by proxy at body was found. But after a few days Walker, M. I»., In Ladies’ Home Jour Interest lessened, aud the affair would nal. least, and enjoyed it. To impress upon you bow the wax soon have been quite forgotten had A Little Too Lnte. Othello Influenced some persons I will not something happened to recall it The minister of a Scotch parish hnd relate a little Incident that occurred vldldly to the public mind. Just one one day not long after the new Image week afterward, at the same hour ami n great wish that an old couple should had been put in place. Mr. Miller, the nt almost the same minute, Murphy In become teetotalers, but they were In no proprietor of the musee, was conduct his rounds discovered another woman wise eager to comply. After much ing some friends through the place, lying dead In front of Othello. Sh» presslug, however, they consented to try the experiment, but laying down ns and when they came to the Shake was covered with blood from a wound spearean group they paused, as people In the neck almost identical with tlie a condition that they should be allowed always did, to admire Othello. One of wound found on the body of Edna to keep a bottle of "Auld Kirk” for the ladles said: "Mr. Miller, it Isn't Nethersole, and tills, as in the previous medicinal purposes. About a fortnight after John began to really wax, is It? It must be a live case, had been Inflicted by the Jeweled feel bis resolution weakening, but he man. It isn’t possible that so good a dagger of the Moor. The dagger lay wns determined not to be the first to counterfeit of a living man could be beside the body, its blade encrimsoned give way. In another week, however, made.” with ldood. Ou the woman's face wns lie collapsed entirely. I For answer Mr. Miller said, “Would that snine singular look of horror—al “Jenny, woman,” he said, "I've an you mind letting me take your hatpin most affright, you would have said— ,nwfu’ pain in my head. Ye mlcht gle a moment?” that we had noticed on the face of the mea wee drapple an' see gin It’ll dae , The woman drew a hatpin from her other girl. me ony gulil.” hat and handed it to him, a little mys When Mr. Miller came upon the "Weel, guldmnn,” she replied, "ye’re tified apparently at the request. Mr. Miller took it and, stepping upon the scene, he wns highly disturbed, and owre late o' askin', for ever sin’ that dais on which the images stood, plung quite naturally, I tliluk. "This comes bottle Chin’ Into the hoose I’ve been ed the sharp pin into the leg of Othello. from the papers printing all these de bothered sae wi’ pains 1' my held ’tls a' He withdrew it and plunged it into the tails about crimes,” he said. “Some dune, an’ there’s nae drapple left.”— arm of the image. “What do you half crazy woman read aliout tlint girl Spare Moments. killing herself here last week, I sup think? Is it a man?” he asked. She Remembered. "No,” sakl the woman, laughing; "I pose, nnd got the notion in her bead Small Mabel had received n parental Hint site would kill herself the snme don’t believe it Is.” “I would hold a lighted match way. Well, no one else shall kill her Injunction to remember at least one against his nose if it wasn't for melt self with this dagger,” he said, nnd thing the minister said nt church, and ing the wax,” added the obliging pro with that lie snapped the blade off upon her return home exclaimed, “I close to the hilt. "That's what I remember something!” prietor. “That's right, dear,” rejoined her fa "It Isn’t necessary,” said the lady. "I ought to have done in the first place,” ther. “Now tell me what the minister he added. am already convinced.” __ Well, this second suicide, as the said.” “He said,” replied Mabel, “ ‘A collec * caused some- Bp'lljl I. ||||, |..,l tion will uow be taken up.’ ” T NEGRO Siri IEI i ES. harmful bathing . Too Much S ohii aud Water Good Fur the Skin. Iu Not It is a familiar boast of English peo ple that we are above all others a washing nation. Soap and water is a standing dish in Great Britain, but so little were we disposed to credit the habitual cleanliness of foreigners that a piece of soap in the valise was till re cently the habitual companion of an Englishman on his travels. All kinds of theories have been raised to account for tills national tendency to ablution, aud most diverse qualities have been attributed to its possession. The familiarity of Islanders with wa ter and tlie use of it occasioned by the uatiouul custom tlint led the ancient Britons to paint their bodies are sol emnly urged ns tlie foundation of the English proneness to washiug, anil the fresh complexions and smooth skins of young Englishmen are held to replace tlie more dusky and hirsute counte nances of the Latin races because of their closer and more frequent ac quaintance with the articles of the washstand. it is quite obvious that even in Eng land there are people who wash too little. It is not so generally recognized that some people wash too much. The skin is not well adapted to frequent applications of water accompanied by even tlie least irritating of soaps. A tendency arises to maceration of the superficial part of tlie epidermis, which Is too frequently removed nnd occa sions probably too rapid a proliferation of tlie cells of tlie Malpighian layer. There is no doubt that many cases of roughness of the skin of the face come from tlie frequent applications of wa ter. It is a good thing to rub the face witli a soft, clean, dry towel two or three times a day. If, in addition, wa ter is used in tlie morning and at night, tlie skin will be kept in a sounder, smoother aud healthier state than if, as Is often tlie ease, soap nnd water are used three or four times a day. Men are not often offenders In til's respect, most men sparing little time for tlie refinements of the toilet. Wom en and children, whose skins are the most easily affected by superfluous ab lution, are the very persons in whom such excess is too common. They should be taught that there are dry methods of cleanliness as well as wet ones.—I.aucet. PADEREWSKI GOT $20. But It font llim That to Get Clot lien Oof of I’awn. III* Paderewski's first really Important engagement ns a pianist was iu Purls long after the deatli of Ills beloved wife. He was engaged to piny in tlie drawing room of a lady famous for Iler musicales. and Ills fee. which seem ed to him enormous, was $20. He man aged to persuade the humane agent to pay lilm in advance, and when Pade rewski laid redeemed his dress suit fr< m pawn and paid for shoes, gloves, tie and other essentials lie had no mon ey left for call hire, so he was forced Io walk to the scene of Ids engagement. The music loving audience Inspired liim. lie played witli feeling, passion and mastery of ids Instrument as nev er before. Ills success was Instant and unmistakable. Tlie poor player had suddenly become the lion of tlie hour. Ids dream had become a reality, and fame and fortune were assured him. At last, after disengaging himself from ids admirers, he turned to leave, when Ids hostess, remembering witli regret tlie smallness of tlie fee for so marvelous a performance, offered hlni her carriage for ids return home. But Paderewski's pride came to tlie rescue. In Ids courteous yet reserved way he made a formal bow, nnd saying. “No. thank you. mndanie; my own Is wait Ing." lie stepped out for Ids long walk home ward. -Pearson’s Weekly. A Llvlnic Emelle. A servant who did not find her way very promptly to tl.e kitchen one morn ing was visited by her mlstreka, who found her In bed suffering from pain and violent sickness. She explained that she had a cold nnd bad taken some medicine which had been recom mended for tin* children. “How much did you take?” asked her mistress. "Well, mum. I went by the directions on the bottle. They said, ’Ten drops for an Infant, thirty drops for an adult nnd a tablespoonful for an emetic.’ I knew I wasn't an Infant or adult, so I thought I must be an emetic, nnd tlie pesky stuff hns pretty nigh turned me Inside out.” —Medical Brief. The “Extra Horse.” A lover of horses recently noticed n custom In France which he thinks ought to be adopted In tills country. On every street In France which lias n steep grade there is stationed an "ex tra horse,” The Inw compels draymei nnd others to make use of tills horst tintIX tlie summit of the hill is reached, nnd there Is n heavy fine for refusing to Hire the extra horse at a small fixed rate. Placards by the roadside Indi cate the point where the extra horse should be taken on and also where he may be dispensed with. Her Ilrllllant Inapt ration. That the proverbial absentminded professor Is sometimes ably abetted by Ills wife is illustrated by a story told of Professor Bunsen. One evening about tlie usual hour for retiring be took it into Ills head to run over to tlie cluli Just ns be and madam were re turning from nil evening call. “But,” said tlie lady, “I must linve the front door locked before I retire.” Tills emergency staggered the pro fessor, and as lie looked bewildered nt his wife the lady, seized with an In spiration, continued: "I'll go In and lock the door nnd throw yon the key from tho window." Tills programme wns carried out. nnd when he reached tlie club the professor related the Incident to a friend as evi dence of his wife's unusual sagnclty. The friend greeted the story with a roar of laughter. “And why, my denr professor,” he said, “did you not simply admit your wife, lock tlie door from the outside and come nwny?” "True," ejaculated the learned man of science; "we never thought of that.” The climax of the Incident was reach ed an hour later when, returning home, the professor discovered that the lady In her excitement liad thrown out tlie wrong key. L n ;.' BOOKKEEPING^- THESOUTH. RN( ’LOAEO MAN'S LOVE OF POMP ANO CIRCUMSTANCE. M ontlerfnll» Xnr.n-d OrssilMUva. to Provide For Ait nitoer.’ Sick llene- fll, nnd Funeral Kipeu.e. — How They Flourl.h In I harleaton. I I I a i Stenography, Penmanship, Telegraphy, Commercial Law, a teacher’s course, preparation for Civil Service examin- ation, or entrance to any university; thorough work in && seven courses including over fifty studies, given at the old reliable STOCKTON BUSINESS COLLEGE. Be sides these the rates are the most reasonable, the courses the most thorough, the accommodations the best, the ■ home most complete aud the advautages many. Write I for particulars to The southern negro’s love of pomp • nd circumstance Is nowhere exempli- tied more forcibly than iu the manner in which he multiplies his charitable organizations. Inordinately fond of company, he has few societies founded with the sole view of promoting social enjoyment. For the most part, what »»»»♦♦»» ever foundations he makes have a semireligious trend, the dues entitling W. G. Rtmisey, - - Principal WK i members to sick benefits and funeral Stockton, Cal. expenses. There Is usually an elabo rate regalia aud an Intricate ritual. Not a few negroes of a southern city, such as Charleston, belong to no less I i Lupor kerb Aiiu Tlie Lost Ilnrjiiiiii. BLftRt, than a score of these orders, the names Book, Now«, It Is Monday morning. Down the of which are oftentimes curiously and MOFHIT Wrltlng und street hurries a stylishly dressed wonderfully made. What, for instance, W rapping... & TOWNE woman. would tlie ordjpary patron of secret or CARD STUOr Why does she hasten so? Why that ganizations think of possessing mem STRAW AND HINDERS’ HOARD bership In the Sons and Daughters look of Intense excitement ill her eyes? Ö5-A7-A9-O1 Firnt st. T bl . main 199. 2 SAN FRANC IS< <» of tlie Seven Golden Candlesticks In Is she going to tlie office of her lawyer, Charity or in the Sons and Daughters there to hear the will of her favorite uncle read? Or is she hastening to the of I Will Arise? Nicely furnish ed rooms by the The sous and daughters idea Is work bedside of the dying? No; none of day, w o ed to the limit of endurance. There Is these. She pulls a newspaper out of month, < n suite her pocket and reads again the an or single.nt low scarcely a well known name in Biblical rates Country history that Is not tacked on to it. nouncement of tlie wonderful bargains patronage solicited, and no pains w 111 he spared to make them comfortable during their visit. There are in Charleston alone no less to lie liad at tlie department store. She rushes frantically into tlie store. than seventy-five of these societies OCMI Market st. nnd I) Ellis st., corner witli charters from the state of South Yes; sli<> can see before her the rem Stockton, San Francisco. nant of pongee silk which Is selling at Carolina, and how many there are that Telephone Red 304 MRS. RANFT, Prop have no legal status no man may say only 15 cents a yard. What a crowd of excited women are clustered aliout with confidence. S am M artin C hah M. C amm For 23 years with For 3 y» ars with Dues are paid weekly, and, strange tin- prize! C, E. Whit ne j’ & Co. C. E. Whitney & O She forces her way Into tlie thickest as it may seem when the great poverty of the negro of tho soutli Is considered, of the crowd. She is tossed this way NEW COMMISSION HOUSE the arrears list is a brief one Indeed. nnd that. She cares not. Iler hat Is Of course the charges are small, usual pulled off and walked on by tlie half She ly aliout 25 cents a month, but when It < razed mob. She cares not. is remembered that many individuals leaches tlie counter. Ten yards only belong to six or eight or even more of the silk Is left. 121-123 Davis St., san Francisco. "I will take It," sli<‘ says. Just in ail orders It is little short of marvelous how the funds necessary to meet the vance of four oilier women, all reach General Commission and demands of the collectors are found, lug for tlie coveted prize. Produce. Tlie clerk says, “It Is yours.” The and yet It is so deep a disgrace to be Specialty, Butter, Eggs and Chee8> expelled that instances of tlie kind are woman feels for her purse. She lias very rare. To hold membership in a left it at home. Your consignments solicited. The other women exult. They buy number of societies Is regarded as a the pongee. Tlie wonderful bargain Is badge of honor. BRIGHT’S DISEASE Meetings are hold monthly in private gone. The bargain day is over. There residences, in public halls or, more fre will lie no more bargain sales for one The largest sum ever paid for a pre scription, changed hands in San I-run quently still, iu churches. These gath week.—Chicago Tribune. cisco, Aug. .’it), 1001. Tlie transfer in erings begin nt tlie fashionable hour volved in coin nnd stock $112,500.(10 in <1 Why She Was Married. of 10 p. m. and continue not Infre It Is queer how Ironclad is the hold w-is paid by a party of business men hr quently throughout the night. Re a specifi- or Bright's Disease anil Dia freshments are to be liad for a small of convention and conventional con betes, h.therto incurable diseases. consideration, nnd as these are for the siderations. They have a tighter grip They commenced tlie serious invest most part of a liquid nature the sons aud a wider influence than law, rea gat ion of the specific Nov. 15, llH« nnd daughters are prone to be con son, sentiment or ethics Itself. A wom They interviewed scores of tlie curcu spicuous by their absence from their an whose marriage may be termed and tried it out on its merit« by putt in several places of employment next mediumlj successful admitted can over three dozen eases on tlie treatnu ill morning. Often the police have to in didly not long ago Hint at the very last anil watching them. They also got pin terfere to restore that harmony Iu moment never, never would she have siciaus to inline chronic, incurable case, which brothers and sisters should ever married her husband bad it not been mid administered it witli the physicians forjudges. Fp to Aug. 25, eighty-seven dwell together. for the thought of all the conventional percent of (lie test cases were either Among tlie societies In Charleston considerations Involved. well or progressing favorably. are tlie Sons and Daughters of the Pil “On tlie way to our wedding,” said There lining lint thirteen per cent of grims, tlie Sons ami Daughters of the the woman, "we had the most awful failures, tlie parties were satisfied and Twelve Disciples, tlie Sons and Daugh kind of a row that made me vow In closed the transaction. The proceeding-, ters of the Bearer of the Cross, the wardly never, never to marry him. of tlie investigating committee and tlie Sons and Daughters of the Evening Then at the thought of the ceremony clinical reports of tlie test cas -s were Star, the Sons and Daughters of the to come off at a friend’s house, the published and will lie mailed free on Seventh Star, the Sons and Daughters breakfast that, thanks to her, was pre application. Address J ohn J. F viton CoMi-vw. 420 Montgomery St. San Fran of the Celestial Travelers, tlie Sons pared and the Invited guests, and how cisco, Cai. and Daughters of the Good Samaritan, they would all talk at auj’ change of the Sons and Daughters of the East, plan, I grit my teeth and went through the Sons and Daughters of Lazarus, it. But It was the thought of the con the Sous and Daughters of Christian ventions nlone tlint kept me up. No Love, nnd there might be added to other possible pressure could have in tln-se fully twoscore of others. The duced me to marry lilm after such a devotion of tlie negroes to these or row as we hnd on our way to the wed ganizations and their loyalty to their ding.”—New York Sun. fellow members are absolute. The funeral of a colored man or To Dwarf Tree. All the world knows that cofl'ee iu woman who holds membership In a To dwarf trees as tlie Chinese do you excessive use is injurious. And yet half dozen of these orders Is a specta must follow their methods. They take the coffee lover cannot stand taste cle worth witnessing. Occasionally a young plant, say a seedling or a cut less cereals. There has to this time bitter feuds nrlse between rival so ting of cedar when two or three Inches been no happy medium between. cieties for tlie possession of a corpse, high, cut off its taproot as soon as it Café Bland fill’s the void with tlie for tlie negro’s love of a funeral Is not lias enough other rootlets to live upon liest elements of Isith. It is richer second even to Ills lovo of melons. Tho anil replant It In a shallow pot or pan, than straight coffee, and many will ceremonies usually begin the night be allowing the end of the taproot to rest not lie easily convinced that it is fore the actual Interment Is to take upon tlie bottom of the pan. Alluvial not all c'üee. But we guarantee tlie’ Cafe Bland contains less than place. There are sermons, prayers nnd clay molded to (lie size of beans nnd fifty per cent coffee, which is scien personal experiences interspiced with Just sufficient in quantity to furnish n tifically blended with nutriiious wild bursts of Incoherent melody, scanty nourishment Is then put Into fruits and grains, thus not only which arouses religious fervor to fever tlie pot. Water, heat and light are per displacing over fifty tier cent of the height. Men and women faint In the mitted on tho same basis. call'ein, but neutralizing that win. b course of the exercises, many others The Chinese nlso use various me- remains and still retaining the rich fall Into trances nnd talk of visions of clianlcal contrivances to promote sym codee flavor. To those who suffer their dead friends enthroned In glory. witli tlie heart, to dyspeptics ami metry of growth. As, owing to the to nervous people Cafe Bland is The ceremonies culminnte In a form shallow pots, both top nnd roots are especially recommended asa healtli- al procession. It Is forming for an easily nceessilile. the gardener uses the f il and delicious tieverage, so satis hour before the residence of the late pruning knife mid tho scaring Iron fying that only tlie member of the lamented son or daughter. Negroes freely, so that tlie little tree, hemmed family making tlie change in the from tlie uttermost parts of the city on every side, eventually gives up the eotl'ee known there has lieen one. gather In the streets. The occasion Is a unequal struggle and. contenting Itself More healthful, richer and less ex- festive one. They run nnd shout nnd with tlie little life left, grows Just pensive than straight coffee. Belt« r caper. The members of the organiza enough to live nnd look well. in every respect. 25 cents per It. Your grocer will get it for you tions to which the dead person belong Ask for ed stand In solemn order, clad In elab Great Mrniorfon. orate uniforms and bearing the ban Otto Schultze, a stenographer, wrote ners and other insignia of their re In the Brandenburg Scbulblntt that spective orders, and when tlie cortege Bismarck liad a wonderful memory. finally moves, wending Its way nt “When he liad delivered a two hours' times through miles of the city's speech nnd looked over our shorthand streets, It Is followed by a mad rush reports tlie next day, lie remembered of men, women nnd children, who every expression lie liad used exactly block the thoroughfares, nnd traffic for nnd did not forget them for years.” the time being has to be suspended. Tlie novelist Splelliagen oneo told Tlie hope of such n funeral Is the In Schultze tlint he could recall vividly spiration of many a negro’s whole life. every one of tlie thousands of persons Proonunci'dcut-tuy—accentjon last syllable He slaves nnd deprives himself of lie hnd met In ills life nnd every word actual necessities for years to meet spoken by casual acquaintances, to the demands of tho collectors of the gether witli their gestures and the cut To Judffe on Opal. ’**' societies In order that he mny go to of their hair and clothes. An expert on opal mining has recent his last resting place In the midst of ly explained bow tlie opal is judged aa A lluntlnK Story, such strangely weird pageantry.— Once Rogers was shooting where Ills to quality and desirability. First, he Charleston Letter In New York Trib says, color is of the greatest Impor host happened to have killed a boy aud une. tance. Red fire, or red In combination a keeper in tlie same season, and he with yellow, blue nnd green, are the Hymns nt y.XOO a Yard. asked n beater whether his muster felt best. Blue by Itself Is quite valueless, A musical composer once said to Mr. the matter very much. The answer nnd tlie green opal is not of great value Sankey witli more frankness than cour was: "Well, sir, lie didn't care much unless tho color Is very vivid and the tesy that ho could write such tunes ns about tlie li'y. He gie Ills mother five pattern very good. The color must be But he were wery wexed those of tin’ "Gospel Hymnbook” by pounds. true that is to say, It must not run In tlie yard If tie were willing to come aliout tlie man. He didn’t go out shoot streaks or patches, alternating with a down to It. Mr Sankey quietly re in’ for a whole week.” Tills in Norfolk colorless or inferior quality. filled. "Well, sir, nil 1 linve to soy is was considered an evidence of tlie cli Pattern is described ns being an im that I am willing to pay five hundred max of human eniotlou.—George Arch portant factor, tlie several varieties be- dollars ii yard, either to you or to any dale in Temple Bar. known as "pin fire" when the grain Is body else, for all the tunes you can very small, "harlequin” when the color RnlldliiK- In Stockholm. bring me like those In our 'Gospel Is all iu small squares, tlie more reg Onlj' two-tliirds of the urea of the lot Hymnbook.'Ladles’ Home Journal can be covered In Stockliolm except on ular the better, and the “flash Are” or street corners, where three-fourths is "flash opal" when the color shows as a Mlcrly Graded. allowed. Tlie remainder of tlie lot single flnsli or In very large pattern. It Is still n tradition that tho people must lie reserved for courts for light Harlequin is the most common nnd is of Manchester, England, should gibe nt und ventilation. All chimney flues must also popularly considered the most Liverpool with the proverb, “A Man be twelve or flftrcn Inches nnd nnlM beautiful. When the squares of color chester man, a Liverjiool gentleman,” be swept once a month from October are regular nnd show as distinct, mi nute checks of red. yellow, blue and but. It Is said, classification Is not so to April by official chimney sweepers. green, it Is considered magnificent. strongly marked In Lancashire ns 1» Some stones show better on edge than Trouble* of Her Own. the old days. Mistress—Mary. Mary! I’ve Just bro on top. ______ When stagecoaches were running, n guard wns once nskeil, “Who hns tha’ ken my handglass. You know how un Ono hundred nnd thirty-three tons a# gotten inside, Billy?” Billy consulted lucky It Is—seven years’ unhappiness. Maid —Ob. that's nothin’, ma’am! waste paper were collected nnd sorted Ills list nnd replied, “A gentleman fra Liverpool, a mon fra Manchester, a ’Ow about me? I’ve JiM smashed the by the men In the Salvation Army’s chap frn Owdliam nnd a fellow fru large glass in tlie drawing room.”— Metropolitan Institution one week In London recently Glasgow Evening Times. Wigan.” THE CUSTER MARTIN, CAMM & CO. Most Healthful Coffee In the World.
