♦»»♦♦♦♦»»••«•»»»»»»»♦»»♦»» 1 th« —e frail girls. /Sotmj of tlie customers
ISOLATION OF ACTORS.
QUAINT COLLEGE LAWS.
STORIES OF SINGERS THE MAJOR’S VENGEANCE.
scolded and blitned the girls l«ecause
’.VI» ¡«»li Mukr the i’rnfea- Rale« Prescribing the Dress ot liar-
MeKIntey anil the Reporter Who
they were slow, when in truth there Co
■ icn ii
«»rid l»>
Persistently Assailed Hina.
«aril students la Bigoae Days.
TIMES
WHEN
THEIR
VOICES
WERE
was so much red tape about every little
Long and Short Hnlr.
This condition, which from some Ina The curious taws regarding studeuts*
During
cue of bis congressional cam
♦
*
.
OF MORE WORTH THAN MONEY.
Homer wrote of toe long haired *.»»».*..».»»..»»»»»»».*** parcel purchased that It was impossible li n inni points of view Is fortunate, Iress which prevailed at Harvard up to
paigns Major McKinley was followed
to hurry matters. For every mistake from others unfurtunn'e and from near the middle of the last century are lllus-
Greeks by way of honorable distinc
from place to place by a reporter for a
Adventure With a Baud at pai»er of opposite political fuitb, who Is
tion. Subsequently the Athenian eav
The Xmas holidays bring a world of made the clerks had to answer. One ly all inevitable. Is unique Indeed, .rated by two eighteenth century waist Santley'«
Mexican
llandlts — Some
K «pert- described
airy and all I at red® m nlan soldiery happiness to big and little folks all over young girl to Polly’s knowledge sent liete we have tlie only targe class of coats which are among the collections
as being one of those
eace« of tlie Tcoor Mario—Hew La “shrewd, persistent fellows who are al
wore long hair. The Parthians and an
workers
which
keeps
the
world
at
up
a
parcel
with
a
live
dollar
gold
piece
of
the
Boston
Art
museum.
One
was
the
civilized
world,
and
yet
it
brings
blache
Fat
a
Bear
to
Flight.
cient Persians wore long, Mowing hair.
ways at work, quick to sea an oppor
n the box. Back came the word from arm's length. Clergymen, physicians, worn by a member of the class of 1740
The Franks and ancient Teutons con sighs and tears and bitter disappoint
tunity ami skilled in making the most
lawyers,
architects,
merchants,
trades
Many
years
since,
when
traveling
iml
the
oilier
by
his
son
in
1784.
the
parcel
or
wrappers
department
that
sidered long hair a mark of high birth. ments as well to a larger majority than
men and laborers of all sorts, by the
The latter waistcoat Is olive green in with some friends in Mexico, Charles of It." While Mr. McKinley was an
The Goths looked on long half as a you would think, for when you see the no change had been sent up. The girl very terms of their toil are brought r<dor. conforming to the college regula Santley was captured by halfbreed noyed by the misrepresentation to
mark of honor and on short hair as a streets and stores teeming with happy stated emphatically that she had put a into constant personal contact with tions. which required either blue gray,
which he was almost dally subjected,
mark of thraldom. So did the Gauls, smiling faces, with their overcoat pock five dollar gold piece in the box which parishioners, patients, clients or cus plain black, "nankeen”—a kind of buff bandits and. living unable to pay the he could uot help admiring the skill and
large
ransom
demanded,
carried
off
to
for which reason .lullus Civsar. when ets bulging out full of gifts and their was vouched for by the purchaser who tomers. Even painters and sculptors or olive. The emit ami breeches which
persistency with which he was assail
be subdued them, obliged them to cut arms loaded down with pareels; women stated that she had seen her put it in must needs be In touch with their pa originally went with it. as one may the motmtalus. Over supper the sing ed. His admiration, too. was uot tin-
their hair short In token of submission. with satchels so crowded that it seems the box. The proprietors would not trons.
read in the old time Harvard "Laws," er. by no means weighed down by mixed with compassion, for tlie re
In England Judges, the speaker of
But
that
thin.
Impassable
row
of
were blue gray. Freshmen of that date his mishap, chanced to break Into song, porter was ill. poorly clad ami had an
listen
to
them
and
the
poor
girl
lost
the house of commons and at one time an utter impossibility to cram another her week’s salary. Yet that money blazing lamps which rims the front of were allowed only plain buttonholes, which so delighted the brigand eblef annoying cough. One night Mr. Mc
the bishops wore long hair, while crim article into them; their arms tilled as
Kinley took a closed carriage for a near
the stage accomplishes what the great sophomores leaped to the dignity of that he demanded an encore.
Santley saw his chance and ex by town at which lie was unnouuced to
inals ami pan|H-rs wore short hair. On well with suspicious looking parcels was sent up by the girl and was evi wall of China was built to accomplish. having buttons on their cuffs. Juniors
the other hand. Jewish priests during that only Santa Glaus can |s>ssibly dently purloined by someone in the Behind them is the sole “profession," might have Inexpensive frogs to their pressed his willingness to comply on «peak. The weather was wretchedly
their time of service had their hair cut have had anything to do with, all look wrapper’s department. Tlie girl turned in front of them the barbarous laity. buttonholes except that they might not condition that he aud his companions raw and cold, and what followed is
once a fortnight, and Roman slaves tired, but nevertheless happy and their as white as a piece of paper. She had If the player desired to break down have them on their cuff buttonholes, were granted tlielr release. The sug thus described:
wore their hair and beard long, but faces are bright with the exjreetation stood from early morning until half the partition, he would scarcely be and the senior enjoyed frogs, button gestion was accepted, aud for over two
He had not gone far wheu he heard
shaved their heads when manumitted. of making someone very joyful on this past ten and eleven o’clock at night able to do so.
holes and buttons complete. Seniors hours was the singer's voice raised in that cough and knew that the reporter
such
exquisite
melody
that
the
bandits,
Sailors who es.-aia-d from shipwreck
was riding with the driver on tlie ex
From the more Important social gath and juniors were permitted also to
only to lose her hard earned money
shaved tlielr heads as If manumitted memorable occasion. High and low,
erings which take place In the evening wear black Oxford gowns, such as are true to their word, allowed him aud posed seat. The major called to the
through
no
fault
of
hers.
rich
and
jssir
are
coming
in
an
endless
from the sea. In Ezekiel v. 1. there Is
driver to stop and alighted. “Get down
both actress and actor are necessarily worn nt graduation today, and a "night those with him to depart.
The late Joseph Maas had a some off that seat, young man,” he said. The
mention of a "barber’s razor,” with In procession, all wearing the same happy
absent. The actor may vote if he can gown,” or dressing gown, was per
similar experience. Years back, reporter obeyed, thinking the time for
structlons to "thou, son of man. take smile, although there are many whose
In this same store a ¡rule was made acquire a residence and contrive to be missible on certain unimportant occa what
when with a companion buffalo hunt the major's vengeance had come.
thee a barber's razor and cause It to care-worn faces and faded and dilapi
sions.
it
cost
"not
more
than
10
shil
in
his
own
city
on
election
day.
but
puss upon thine head and upon thy dated garments cause you a pang of re requiring every clerk to walk up the it is impossible that lie should taka lings” for every appearance of gold or ing on the American prairies, he was "Here.” said Mr. McKinley, taking off
stairs and not use tlie elevator. During
captured by Indians aud carried to his overcoat, "you put on this overcoat
beard.”
gret that anyone in this prosperous one of the busiest hour« the day before any active part in politics or partici- silver adornment.
their camp. When at his wits’ end and get into that carriage.”
The
rules
of
costume
were
changed,
pate
in
preliminary
meetings,
caucus
city
should
show
the
marks
of
poverty
Poetry unit Ilog«.
Christmas one slight pale looking girl es and rallies which are held at night, of course, from time to time. In 1828. how to extricate himself from the
"But. Major McKinley,” said the re
so
plainly.
It
is
safe
to
say,
however,
This particular practical wife looks
dilemma, his friend suggested the pow
was required to walk up three flights of
like a dream, but she Is right lip to the that no one in San Francisco went stairs with her arms full of bundles, and as to attendance at church, the for example, the prescribed dress con er of song. Forthwith he commenced porter, “I guess you don't know who 1
am. I have been with you the whole
¡flayer encounters, in the first place, sisted of a black mixed coat, single
mark In business, line day Just as the w ithout a good Christmas dinner, with
an operatic selection that so delighted
frost was on the pumpkin lie came in. hot roast turkey, chickens, roast beef, some of them glass and breakable goods. the difficulty. Inseparable from his breasted, “with u rolling cape square his captors that they loosened his campaign, giving it to you every time
"Darling.” tie began. I have just been sweet and Irish potatoes, etc., cranber She had made tlie attempt to go up the wandering life, of making a connection nt the eml ami with pocket flaps, the bonds ami urged him. at the point of you spoke, and I am going over tonight
to rip you to pieces if I can.”
thinking tins is a most memorable day ries, pumpkin and mince pies, with crowded stairway but was jostled by with a parish and, besides, in recent waist reaching to the natural waist, their spears, to continue.
“I know." said Mr. McKinley, "but
In our Ilves, both yours mid mine. Ho plenty of hot coHee and tea, for the the surging crowd until she went back years, is almost constantly required to with lapels of the same length.” It is
Luckily his voice bad a soporific ef
you know what it recalls?"
in desperation for fear the articles travel on Sunday, passing from a Sat explained that "black mixed.” called fect ui>on the Indians, who one by one vou put on this coat and get Inside and
also Oxford mixed, was black with not
Salvation Army and other charitable
get warm so that you can do a good
"No." she declared.
would lie knocked from her arms, in urday evening's performance in one
dropped asleep until. Just as he was
"What! N«.t remember this particular institutions did a noble work for the which event she would have to pay for town to a Monday morning's rehearsal more than one-twentieth nor less than on the point of stopping from exhaus job.”—Chautauqua».
one-twenty-lift it part of white. The
In another.—Atlantic Monthly.
date?" lie asked in horror and reproach. |xxir and destitute.
the damaged articles. No floor walker
senior was allowed to support bls dig tion. the last passed into the realm«
"Oh. surely you must.”
....
THE MAGIC NUMBER.
was in sight and they were anxious
nity witli three "crow’s feet” of black of dreams. Then he and his compan
She said again that she didn't, though
BEAVER
TAIL
SOUP.
ion
quietly
stole
away.
For days before Christmas Salvation for the articles on the third floor. The
silk cord on the lower part of his coat
A SaKiceatlon hy the Cynic That Set
to oblige him she would if she could,
ills wonderful voice on one occasion
Lumber Camp Delicacy sleeve. Two crow's feet were permitted
the Others Thinking.
and he bowed Ids head and looked sor Army lads and lassies stood on the elevator was not crowded to the extent A Michigan
placed
tlie
great
tenor
Mario
In
a
some-
That Aniased a Marylander.
to the junior, one to the sophomore and
“1 often hear of the magic number,”
rowfully out of the window at the street corners holding their lioxes, that she could not easily go up, so she
“Although I am a Marylander and an none nt all to the freshman. The waist what Invidious position. When travel said some one. "What number is it?"
which were mounted on poles, and on stepped io. One of the floor walkers
swaying trees loaded with red leaves.
ing witli some companions In Spain, be
"Why, nine, of course,” replied some
“Oou't say it!" he exclaimed. "Don’t each was the invitation to the passers happened to see her and when she Eastern Shore one at that,” said an epi coat w as of black mixed or of black or, fell Into tlie bauds of a party of ma
tell me you have no recollection of the by to give their mite to the Salvation came back lie stepped up to her aud in cure from that state, “and consequent when of cotton or linen fabric, of white; rauding gypsies. who demanded the one else. “There are uine muses, you
serious Import of this day. Think! See Army towards a dinner for the poor formed her that her money was wait ly know what good things to eat are. I single breasted, with a standing collar. customary ransom. Mario, tickled at know, and you talk of a nine days’
want to tell you that I’ll have to take The pantaloons were of black mixed.
wonder. Then you bowl at ninepins,
how I am Impressed by the recollec and destitute. How many do you think
tlie situation, answered their request and a cat has nine lives.”
ing for her at the desk and they would off my hat to the lumber comp cook of
tion. Surely you recall it.”
they fed on Christmas day at the six
in impromptu song, which he delivered
“Nonsense!” broke in another. "Sev
A dawning light spread over her face. long tallies covered with good things? not require her services any longer. the upper Michigan peninsula as the
APHORISMS.
with such exquisite mock dignity that en Is tlie magic number. Seventh
discoverer,
fabricator
aud
dispenser
of
The
girl
cried
and
pleaded
that
this
was
"I believe I do." she cried Joyously.
bls
captors
witli
unanimous
acclama
"Yes. it was Just this time we killed Just 1100 people partook of this feast her first offense and tried to explain a dlsli that knocks the Eastern Shore Good counsels observed nre chains of tion elected him captain of tlielr band. heaven, don't you know, aud nil that;
of good things and that did not count matters, but he would not listen to ex cuisine silly. And that rare lumber grace.—Fuller.
seven colors in the rainbow, seven
hogs last fall."
The beauty seen Is partly In him who Tlie singer diplomatically acquiesced in days in the week, seventh son of a
He gave a hollow groan and left the tlie many baskets that were sent to cuses and she had to leave. Polly does camp dish is beaver tail soup.
tlielr
decision,
but
in
the
course
of
the
seventh son—great fellow-anti”—
room of Ills too. too practical wife. It poor families who could not come to not wish that floor walker with noth "1 was with Colonel Park of Colum sees it.—Bovee.
following day contrived to make bis
"Tush, tush!” remarked a third.
was their wedding anniversary. —Louis tiie hall. Not only did they furnish ing to do but walk around blandly and bus, O., deer hunting in the Italny lake Admiration is the daughter of Igno escape
witli Ills friends.
region of Michigan one fall. We lived rance.—Franklin.
"Five’s tlie number you mean. A
ville Courier-Journal.
tlie dinner for these worthy and desti see that the customers are waited on at
On another occasion in Madrid the
a lumber camp boarding shanty.
great attempts P I p glorious even same singer, as he was returning late man has five fingers on tils hand and
tute people but they sent out clothing and watch the clerks with a jealous
"There were signs of beaver at the to In fail.
five toes on his foot, and lie lias five
—
Longinus.
and bedding to keep the shivering eye any ill-luck, still I would like to see upper end of tlie lake, and a trapper
Urban Stupidity.
one night from the theater where he
The one prudence of life Is concen was engaged, was arrested by the po senses, and”—
“Henry,” said Uncle Amos from Up bodies warm, and toys for the children. li ini as tired in body and soul as that succeeded in trapping one of the wily
"Three is undoubtedly the magic
tration.—Emerson.
Creek, who was visiting his city neph
lice In mistake tor a political discon number,” Interrupted another, “because
dam builders.
....
poor
frail
girl
was
and
doomed
to
walk
ew. "who’s that man in the bouse on
"When the beaver was brought into The golden age Is before us. not be tent. In vain lie asserted ills identity. people give three cheers, aud Jonah
At tlie infant Shelter one hundred up three flights of stairs with his arms
the other side of the street? Every
He was carried before their chief, who was Inside a whale three days and
camp, tlie camp cook went nearly wild, hind us.—St. Simon.
little
children
hung
up
their
stockings
full of perishable goods and jostled to and so did the lumbermen wheu they
Levity It; behavior Is the bane of all likewise smiled incredulously at the three
morning he stands In front of a win
nights, and If at first you don't
dow an’ shaves himself. He’s done and kind Kris Kringle must have found the right and the left by impatient heard (he news, all because they had that Is good and virtuous.—Seneca.
captive's asseverations.
succeed,
try. try again—three times,
them
all
very
good
children,
for
not
one
It now for three days hand running.”
customers and sight-seers. 1 wonder if been trying to trap a beaver for weeks,
Better be driven out from among • Greatly angered, Mario vehemently
see!”
“I suppose that he has done It every of them was forgotten, but were tilled he wouldn’t bestow a thought on the not for its fur, but for Its tail, as they men than to be disliked by children.— demanded that Ills friends should be you
This was received with some con
morning for the last ten years, uncle,” from the toe up with nice things. frail little girl he deprived of a position. were pining, they said, for beaver tail Dana.
forthwith communicated with, but the tempt
by tin* company, ami a soulful
replied Henry.
official
shook
his
head
aud
remarked
soup.
Loving kindness is greater than laws,
They had a Christmas tree, too, and
youth
gushed
out:
»»»♦
“Has he lived there all that time?"
“The cook took that broad appendage and the charities of life are more than that if Indeed he were the great tenor
merry old Kris Kringle gave them
"Two. oh. two Is the magic num
“Yes, and longer than that, for all 1 good advice and timely warnings of To the question of last week in re of the beaver, mailed like an armadillo, all ceremonies.—Talmud.
lie possessed In his voice a sure means ber
—oneself aud one other, tlie adored
know. I’ve been here only ten years
Have you so much leisure from your of proving the truth of his words. Ten one—Just two!"
what might have happened if all had gard to tlie umbrella plant, 1 would say took from it the underlying bone and
myself.”
minutes
later
Mario
was
bowed
out
meat, and from It made such a soup as
A hard featured Individual, who had
not been such very good little folks, as that there seems to be no general rule, never came from any other stock at the own business that you can take care with many regrets and profuse apolo
"Who is ha?"
of that of other people that does not
two of the liandsomest umbrella plants
been
listening to tlie conversation hith
he
handed
oft'
the
gifts
and
bags
of
“I don't know.”
gies.
1 ever saw were treated so differently. beck of the most expert and scientific belong to you?—Terence.
erto unmoved, here remarked in a
candy, nuts and oranges galore.
“What does lie fuller ?”
When
traveling
to
I
’
aris
with
some
chef
that
ever
put
a
kettle
on.
One of the owners watered the, plant
other ladies. Mme. Grlsl had a thrilling harsh voice:
“I haven't the slightest idea, uncle.”
"We could do the same thing and
....
A Rattlesnake'« PaiiKi.
"The magic number is uumber one
from the top and kept it standing in perhaps better on tlie Eastern Shore,
Uncle Amos put on Ids hat and went
You often hear of rendering a rattle adventure. At a small wayside station In tills world, and if you want to suc
Every orphan asylum had its Christ the jMit. The other never poured a
out.
man entered the carriage, aud It soon
mas tree, and the fatherless and moth drop of water on the plant but kept it but we lack one thing. We haven’t got snake harmless by pulling out Its a became
evident from his threatening ceed never forget it."
In an hour or two he returned.
the beavers to yield us their tails.”— fangs. Then, again, you read of cases
Air Interval of deep thought on tlie
erless
little
folks
found
that
Santa
Claus
standing in an earthen jar half filled New York Suu.
gestures
and eccentric behavior that he
"Henry,” he said, "that chap's name
where a serpent so treated has bitten
part of all followed, after which they
was
a
dangerous
lunatic.
is Horton. He runs an Insurance office was kind to the friendless orphans, with water all the time. Both used
persons fatally. The reason for this Is
Chicago—Bustle and Slouch.
Though her companions were panic went In silently to supper.—Pearson's.
down town, lie’s wutb about $27,000, showering them with toys, candy, etc., two or three drops of ammonia in the
that a Dolsonous snake is deprived only
owns that house an' lot. belongs to the and a line turkey dinner. They found water, however. Both were successful In general, we live beneath a sky temporarily of Its venomous powers by stricken. Mme. Grlsl retained complete
No Woi’d For Love.
Presbyterian church, has three boys that this old world was not nearly so and their umbrella plants were the talk within a sky. and our funereal pall, the extraction of the two incisors In presence of mind and with tiie utmost
in comparison witli tlie English
while It occasionally lightens, seldom the upper jaw. at the bnses of which composure began to sing. At once the
an’ one girl, an’ he's forty-six years drear as it might have been to the lit
lifts altogether. Whether the newcomer are the poison glands. Of course you maniac was quiet; his whole attention tongue foreign tongues seem parslmo
old. I've found out more about him In tle orphans. At the Childrens' Hos of their friends.
approaches along the bluffs aud ravines know that the fangs are hollow, so was riveted on that magnificent voice, nlous in some ways of expression and
an hour than you have In ten years. pital there were festivities that the lit
of the north or through the swamps that when the nnimal strikes the ven and lie remained the most appreciative wasteful in others.
Blamed If I don't believe livin’ In the tle invalids will never forget. Every
BRIEF REVIEW.
For instance, it Is Impossible to "kick”
and marshes of the south or over the om gushes through them Into the flesh of listeners until the train reached the
city makes people stupid.”—Chicago
in French. You must give him
little child w’ho could betaken from its
Tribune.
wide stretching prairies of the west of the person struck. Now. by draw next station, where he was secured. It a a men
"blow
with the foot." Tlie Portu
Science Makes War Costly.
bed in each ward was wrapped up
transpired
subsequently
that
lie
was
a
tlie dun trappings of the great horror ing the two teeth the snake may be
guese
do
not
"wink" nt one; they "close
warmly
and
taken
to
enjoy
tlie
heavily
Providing For a Wayward Son.
A single battle-ship or large cruiser show from afar. As be rattles nlong rendered harmless for a few weeks, maniac with homicidal tendencies who nnd open the eyes.”
Lord Chesterfield gave advice to bls laden Christmas tree that twinkled costs millions, and yet it may be entire through perky suburban settlements but after a short time the two teeth had esea|H‘<l from an asylum.
In the languages of the American In
son in sundry letters, which might or with hundreds of lights from thedainty ly destroyed by a torpedo or by a few or honest truck farms or half dried Just behind the original fangs move up
An amusing story Is told of Lablache dians
there is no word witli which to
might not be followed, but In Ills will little colored candles that decorated the
the
celebrated
bass
singer.
One
day
twales
and
disheveled
swamps
the
nnd take their places, making connec
convey the Idea of "stealing." ¡icrliaps
as
he
was
strolling
leisurely
through
a
he took good care that “my godson. tree. Then came the merry old Santa shots if they happen to hit the right horror grows.
places. Every new discoveay, either in Across the wide fields—gay with this tion with the poison glands and thus French fair a cry was suddenly raised because tlie idea of property Is so
Philip Stanhope,” should have strong
poison fangs as good and ef
It Is related of one of the early
Claus,
all
furs
and
bells,
who
never
tlie
way of new engines of warfareor of year’s flowers or somber with last becoming
that a bear had escaped from the me vague.
Inducement to follow Ills advice on at
fective as the old ones.
missionaries that In attempting to
questioned
a
single
child
as
to
whether
more deadly and dangerous explosives, year’s weeds—separating the raw hud
nagerie. Tlie crowd fled In every di translate
least one point. All the bequests nre
Bible Into Algonquin he
subject to the condition that If Philip it had been “real good" or not but makes war more costly. A dozen old dles of workers’ cottages, tangles of
rection—all save the singer, whose mas could find the
Ilornp« and Cold.
no
word to express "love"
passed
the
many
presents
suitable
for
should keep race horses or hounds or
ships of tlie linecould be built and com telegraph poles and of trolley wires,
Colonel Sir T. H. Holdich. writing In sive proportions precluded the Idea o< and was coni|M*lled to invent it.
stay one night nt Newmarket, “that In good boys and girls to the happy little pletely equipped for less than it costs to lead op the eye toward ugly, shape “The Indian Borderland” of the terrible rapid motiou. Amid the genera) com
famous seminary of iniquity and ill recipients. The little patients, who put a modern battle-ship into the water. less bulks looming above the dingy storms nnd wind and snow which over motion he among them all stood un
A Spelling Bee.
manners.” during the course of the could not be taken from their beds, A ton of gunpowder would not do as horizon-foundries, elevators, machine take the traveler on the high passes of moved. calmly awaiting the advent of
Some of you who think you are well
races there, or should lose on any one were not forgotten, however, the Xmas
the
ferocious
Imaat.
which
sure
enough
(hops, breweries, factories. Icehouses— the Herat mountains, remarks on the
in spelling Just try to spell the
day by betting or gaming ns much us toys and gotxi things literally covering much damage as a few pounds of mele- detached notes that preclude the great superior power of the horse to with came slouching rapidly toward him. up
words
in this little sentence:
nite
or
any
of
the
modern
explosiues.
£500. then in such case lie shall forfeit
discord to come. Then avenues of stand cold. In one such storm "over When within a few feet, it halted as
"It is agreeable to witness tlie un
£5,000 to the dean and chapter of their little white beds. Besides the
tracks, shut In by the shameless backs twenty men perished and many mules. though to gather Itself together for a paralleled ecstasy of two harassed ped
French Lighthouse Economy.
Westminster for every such offense.— Christmas tree every little child hung
of things and spanned by grimy via All the dogs with the caravan were final rush, when Lablache stepped for dlers endeavoring to gauge tlie syui
up its stocking and no one can blame
All tLe Year Round.
France finds that her splendid system ducts; arrays of mean streets doggedly dead. but. so far as I can remember, ward and from the lowest depths of metry of two peeled pears."
tlie little tot who looked at her own of coast illumination is costing her too curtained against the sun and resolute no horses. Yet some of the chargers of his Immense chest sent forth such a
Read It over to your friends and see
Know Your Own Capacity.
tiny stocking with a sinking of the much, and efforts are being made to ly fighting off the sweet country airs.
the Eleventh'Bengal lancers got slowly thunderous roar that the terrified ani how many of them call spell every
If the people about you are carrying heart when she realized how little it
mal
turned
and
fled.
The
heart
siuks,
the
stomach
re
word correctly. Tlie sentence contains
economize. In 1873 the best French volts as. through dirt, dust, grime, soot, on their legs the day after the blizzard
on their business or tlielr benevolence
sheeted with Ice as an ironclad
many of tlie real puzzlers of the spell
at a pace which draws the life out of would hold when she asked the nurse light-houses were illuminated by min smoke and cinders the trembling neo literally
When Will n Man Be Too Rich t
s sheeted with steel.” It is a fact worth
ing book.—London Tit-Bits.
you, resolutely take a slower pace; lie to loan her her long one to hang up, eral oil, and the most powerful light phyte bumps and Jars along toward noting
What will eventually be the limit of
that
the
horse
will
stand
cold
promising
to
give
it
back
when
Santa
called a laggard, make less money, ac
equaled only 820,(MX) candles, and to the Is'smlrched shrine of the two faced where a mule or a camel will not ami Individual wealth? Half s century
Cleaning Jewel«.
complish less work than they, but be < 'tans got through tilling it and she had day, owing to the continued progress goddess of Bustle aud Slouch.—Henry where a dog will die.
back “ten thousand a year" was con
With the exception of pearls Jewels
what you are meant to be and can be. had the pleasure of emptying it.
sidered to lie a vast fortune. Then mny be washed with warm water and
made in lighthouse illumination, a B. Fuller In Outlook.
Y’ou have your natural limit of power
"fifty thousand a year” was the phrase pure soap. They should then be put
flood of light which has the enormous
He
Watched
Thein.
as much as an engine—ten horsepower
commonly used to describe the Income In boxwood sawdust to dry. If this Is
Absurd Fashion«.
power
of
nearly
29,
(MM),
000
candles
will
Nor
did
the
old
people
in
the
King
’
s
The following Is one of the stories of fabulously rich men or women. Lat done, polishing will be unnecessary.
or twenty or a hundred. You are fit
Some of the fashions In France dur
to do certain kinds of work, atid you Daughters' Home for Incurables and of pierce the thickest fog and can be pro ing the reign of Queen Marie were ex told about Eugene Field:
er we took to speaking of "million As boxwood sawdust Is very Hue. It
need a certain kind and amount of the Protestant Episcopal Old Ladies’ jected far beyond the signal station.
ceedingly absurd, particularly hair There were visitors In prospect one aires.” In quite recent times the “mul will not scratch, and as it absorbs
fuel and a certain klud of handling — Home fare worse than the children.
dressing and hats, which were trim afternoon In the Field household and timillionaire" with twenty millions hail moisture rapidly It helps to give Jewel«
George 8. Merriam.
Tlie Russians count upon their cli med with such an extravagant wenlth a strike In the culinary department. reached the limit of private wealth; a high polish. It can be procured from
Their Christmas was made a happy
one with gifts, a tine dinner, an even mate as one means of defense, as it was of feathers that the coaches had to Mischief was nt flood tide, and Mrs. then forty millions. Now the limit lias any dealer In Jeweler's supplies <r or
Field was vainly endeavoring to lie risen to a hundred millions, and al dered through a jeweler.
Ilumilnn Peasant Wetldlngs.
ing entertainment consisting of music when Napoleon invaded Kussia. Their have their seats lowered. According
A peasant wedding In Kussia means and literary exercises, and a reception troops are accordingly trained in win to Mme. Campan. “mothers and hus everywhere at once, when the man of ready the word “billionaire” has come
a festival for the whole village and of- of friends in the evening, and you can ter maneuvers, including loading a bat bands murmured, and the general ru “sharps and flats" appeared In the Into use In the United States. Will the
Those Foolish Questions!
mor was that the queen would ruin the kitchen doorway with a folio lu Ills nultlbllllonalre ever replace the mult'
.en for the young people from neighbor
Benevolent Old Lady—How old are
tery, witli its war transport and mate French ladies.”
rest
assured
none
<»f
tlie
friends
came
hand.
millionaire?—London Standard.
ing villages as well.
you, sir?
"Ob, won't you watch those pies for
Weeks before the eventful day the empty-handed. Both homes were rial complete, upon sleighs moving it One day Louis XVI. decided to for
The Youngster—Thirty-five.
same
Sheep.
for
some
distance
over
a
difficult
snow-
me
while
I
run
upstairs
an
Instant?
”
beautifully
decorated
with
holly
berries,
bid the court in a body to follow the
young girls assemble at the home of
Benevolent Old Lady—Bachelor?
Sable
sheep
are
not
frequently
seen
covered country, and bringing it into royal hunt in coaches. In order to be his wife exclaimed. “Be sure not to
the bride to help her sew. The bride etc.
The Youngster—Alas, yes.
freer he wished only to permit real let the meringue scorch—It would rulu in England, but ebony lambs are plen
....
action again.
groom comes with his men friends to
Benevolent Old Lady—Ah, too laid.
sportsmen to attend. The noble la them; you’d better give me that book tiful In the Australian commonwealth How long?—New York Times.
treat them to nuts and sweets. Appro At the Almshouse 1000 inmates sat
A
colonial
flock
master
hail
quite
a
or
they
’
ll
lie
burned
to
a
crisp.
”
With
dies
immediately
rebelled,
and
the
Largest Church Bell in Montana.
priate songs are sung, and the bride down to as tine a Christmas dinner as
Their Little Spat.
groom’s generosity Is put to the test. could be provided for them. The cor Nt. Patrick's parish in Butte has tlie Princess of Monaco criticised the deci mock meekness Mr. Field allowed her number of black lambs, and he folded
Boggs— I bear you have fallen out
One of the girls holds out to him a ridors and hallways were all one glow largest liell upon any sort of an edifice sion by means of her headdress, upon to carry off his treasure. On returning them In a range by themselves. He
which arose a miniature royal coach, she was horrified to find the oven door found that black lambs might not re with your sweetheart.
plate, and If he puts down a silver coin
Joggs— Yes. She got an Idea Into
they sing him a song full of compll of holly berries shining like coral from in Montana. The huge sound-producer followed by two gentlemen on foot in wide open and the rich, fluffy meringue cur In a flock In generations and then
recur suddenly. For example, where a her head that I was angry nt her. ami
ments, but If he gives copper and is the festoons of green. There were gifts lately arrived from Baltimore, lieing a gaiters. On the left of this was dis flat, tough and leatberlike.
"They’re ruined!” she exclaimed In black ram was used In a flock of white It made me angry tc have her think I
known to be able to afford more mock galore, and a reception of friends in the gift to the church from «Samuel Mar- played a cypress garnished with black
ery follows. The whole village is in evening. In the morning they listened chesseau and William Scallon. The tears, the large roots being formed of dismay. “Why didn’t you keep the ewes the product was white lambs, was unreasonable enough to get angry
with few exceptions, and where sire at her.—Chicago News.
oven door shut?"
vited to the marriage ceremony, which to a Christmas sermon. All told the bell weighs 2800 pounds and cost $800. era ¡ic.
■ ■
J
"Keep the door shut!” Mr. Field end dam were ebony colored the lambs
More absurd still was the hairdress
is performed with all the ancient su Christmas of 1901 was an enjoyable one It is said to have a very tine and full
Altogether Too Honest.
ing of the mother of Ixmis Philippe, repented In very genuine amazement. were mostly white. Aud so the Aus
perstitious rites and solemnities. - to rich ami poor alike. None shared tone.
Jove! I left my pocketbook under
upon whose head every one could ad "Why. yon told me to watch them ev tralians gave up the attempt to found my "By
Youth's Companion.
pillow.”
very badly, for the hearts of those in
a
sable
flock.
Where
wool
Is
dyed
a
ery
instant,
ami
I'd
like
to
know
liow
mire
her
son,
the
Due
de
Beaujolais,
An Irishman in speaking of an ac
“Well, yonr servant girl Is surely an
better circumstances were opened to
deep color sable wool absorbs less dye
Gatea In Norway.
quaintance said he was condemned to In the arms of his nurse as well as a t could do that with the oven door and makes a more durable color. Still honest person.”
shut!”—New York Tinies.
A curious feature to travelers In the bear the cry for help from those who
parrot
pecking
at
a
cherry.
“That’s just the trouble. She will
black fleece absorbs more sun rays than
highroads of Norway is the great num were laltoring in theeause of humanity. tie hanged, but saved his life by dying
give the pocketbook to my wife" -
white,
nnd
black
sheep
are
more
serl
ber of gates—upward of 10.000 in the It was a hard two weeks, though, for the day before he was executed.
An arrangement has just been made Where Medical Knowledge Stopped. ously affected by heat.—London Live Fllegende Blatter.
whole country which have to be open those acting as clerks In the big depart A hopeless man is deserted by him whereby the Berlin gas tamps lu tlie
"No use talking.” said the invalid
Stock Journal.
ed. These gates, which either mark ment stores, and to Polly’s mind there
streets will be lighted automatically feebly. “I'm going to die, I know.”
Hopeless.
self,
and
he
who
deserts
himself
is
soon
the boundaries of the farms or sep was much injustice done. Some of the
“
Oh,
come!"
expostulated
his
friend.
nnd
simultaneously
by
means
of
nu
So little confidence Is there In Tur*
First Golfer—He doesn't play very
deserted by his friends.
arate the home fields from the waste
electric attachment. The current will “The doctor doesn't saj that, nnd he Isb pontoffice employees that when well, but he says he's too busy to give
lands, constitute a considerable in girls fainted and others grew hysterical
be switched on from the central stn surely knows more than yon do."
some time ago opportunity was given any more time to practice.
convenience and delay to the traveler, when tired nature called a halt that The rearing of worms and manufac lion, and a spark will Ignite the gas.
"No; he doesn't know, as I do, that 1 to send packages and registered let
Second Golfer-Oh. well. If a man
could
not
be
given
to
the
many
clerks.
ture
of
silk
were
completely
broken
up
who has to stop bis vehicle and get
which will lie turned on by a special allowed my Insurance to lapse.”—Cath tsrs only one of each was received at neglects golf to attend to bls business
down to open them.
The strain was something dreadful to in America by the revolution.
apparatus.
olic Standard and Times.
Btambonl In Ten days.
Fhat can he expect?
BANDON RECORDER.
: Polly Larkin ♦