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Food For Powder A Tale of Dr. m ByP. Y. Jameson's Raid A BLACK CopprW- 1901. by P. T. Black. Two of the Htatlon traps drew up at the entrance. The little hotel hail to be entered through the bar; but, as tew ladles stopped in the little town on the veldt, that was uo great Inconvenience. One of these few had arrived now. The little crowd drew back to let her pass In, and when she was once Inside and had inclined her head slightly and a little nervously toward the men, in- . eluding them all in one courtly bow, all hats came off. She was not young, a woman between thirty and forty, and if ever she had so been, she was not now beautiful. Her brown hair was dusted with gray, her face was pale and thin, her eyes were deep set and sorrowful. She was accompanied by a boy of ten, nattily dressed, and a mid dle aged man, on whom the stamp of Chancery lane was indelibly branded— an unmistakable lawyer's clerk. The hostess was a little flurried. Guests of her sex were rare, but rarer yet la dles so evidently of a high breed as this. The clerk asked at once for a parlor. He was not sure, he Bald, whether the party would remain or not, but at present the lady would like a private room and a word with the landlord or his wife. The bar wbb turned over to the care of a youth of all work, aud the host and his wife led the way into the only parlor In the bouse, that In which stood the piano round which had gathered of nights the reckless troopers on leave from the barracks before they had volunteered for the unfortunate “Jameson’s raid.” They closed the door, and the lady, seating herself, looked to the lawyer’s representative, who spoke at once. “ ’M,” he began, with a little cough like bls master’s in court. “The—ah— facts of this case are these: Ah, I am Instructed to state that my client has been credibly informed that you—ah— as the proprietors, lessees or managers of this fnu, hostelry or hotel, have re cently—ah—given shelter and in all probability have had transactions with a gentleman whom my client Is very anxious to meet. I should say—ah— that it is possible—ah—that in the use of the word ‘gentleman’ I may uncon sciously be misrepresenting”— The lady flushed, and the speaker corrected himself hurriedly. “Misleading—ah—I beg your pardon, my lady—misleading you. From Infor mation received at Cape Town and at Kimberley we are of opinion that the gentleman may, by reason of misfor tune aud of having assumed to some natural extent the—ah—picturesque but somewhat uncouth dress and—ah— mannerisms of the—ah—interesting but —ah—unconventional pioneers, have re The lady ran to tl with u loud »cream. cently presented the appearance of be glad I am! See, here Is his pocketbook! ing—ah—not a gentleman.” Oh, tell me, you kind woman, who left “What’s the man’s name?” the land this?” lord asked briefly. “That?” said the landlady. “Why, The arrivals looked at each other, and that belonged to one of the poor men again the lady flushed. who went out with Dr. Jameson. He “We don’t know,” said the lawyer's bad just come, and I didn’t hear his clerk slowly. “That Is, his name—all- inline. My, but—but-sure, the boy may have—In fact, he may have been here Is like him.” traveling Incognito." “With Dr. Jameson?" the lady wills The landlord laughed as at a good pered, very white. “We heard ou the Joke. train that the raiders were killed aud “He's not the only one,” said he. captured. Was he there—at Krugers “Many and many a man out here was dorp?” known at home by a different name. Nobody was heard to speak. The What's he like? Travelers come and man at the door slipped quietly In and go, and we have all kinds.” examined the papers on the floor unob The clerk shook bis head dubiously. served. For a moment the lady trem “My client has not seen him for nine bled, then, taking her little bewildered years. He must have changed.” son’s hand, she said steadily: Suddenly the lady leaned back in her "Mr. Brown, will you order a car chair, with her handkerchief to her riage and horses? I will go there at eyes, and trembled violently, suppress once.” ing sobs. At once the landlord’s wife "My lady, where?” grabbed the clerk and her husband and “To the battlefield.” pushed them out of the room and In "It is late in the day, my lady, and less than a minute was alone with the many miles." lady and the frightened boy, busily en She bit her lips. gaged with smelling salts and cordials. "Please order the horse at once,” she “Poor thing; poor thing!” the woman said. “No doubt we can find fresh ones whispered, soothing the other when the somewhere if these fall us ou the traveler had regained command of her road." He looked at her and opened Ills lips self. “Why couldn't that windbag say so at once? You’re looking for your to protest, but looked at her again and husband, and this is his boy—a pretty obeyed. The good woman of the house pitied, but had sufficient Instinctive boy. Isn’t it that?” “Yes, thank you. I'm a little tired, tact not to press the feverishly agi tated wife to remain. The landlord that's all.” “The rascal!” the woman cried Indig bustled about aud himself saw to the guides ami horses. nantly. "The rascal! To desert”— In the meantime the lone traveler “No—no—no!” the stranger cried, al most as indignantly. “Not that! Never took one glass of beer and a sandwich —never that! It was quite the other at the bar aud, grabbing his valise, made baste to catch a southbound train way.” for Kimberley after consulting for a The hostess looked puzzled. “Quite the other way,” the lady re moment the timetables which explained peated now In the presence of one of how one should quickest reach Pretoria her own sex, apparently glad to give In the Transvaal. Wrapped In cloaks, the lawyer’# clerk vent to the feelings which she had had to suppress during all the long Journey and the tired child slept fltfully through from England. “It was I who deserted the night as four horses rattled them him. Oh, if you can help me to And over the wide and lonely veldt. But him, you will, will you not? You look the wife was sleepless, staring with anxious eyes into the continual shad good and kind.” "I will; I will! Tell me all about It.” ows. Shapeless shadows to the drivet “We were married ten years ago, and and guide, shadows of no meaning, bls father was very angry about It. they were animate for her—forms and You see, my husband was In the f„ , s of long ago leaping to fantastic guards, but depended on his father. life, forms and faces even more fan He was In debt too. How could he tastic. of a future doubtful and dread help that? He was so young and his cd. Once or twice her fatigue oven father allowed him very little, for Rob came her anxiety, and she slept a lit ert was n younger son. His father cut tle. The last time she woke up with off that little when we married. Rob a cry for help. In her dream she had ert gambled a little. They—they are seen a tall ladder resting in unseen depths of blackness, yet whose top was tempted so, you know?” In sunlight. Iler husband was falling “I know, dear; I know.” “But he wasn’t bad. Then I per falling to the ladder’s foot, to dreadful suaded him to meet his father at a darkness, but she and an old man were London club and make friends, and— looking down at him from above. “Oil. dear God!” she sobbed, shudder and a dreadful thing happened.” ing. "Wherever he Is. whatever he ha« “Never mind that, dear.” "Oh, but I must tell you, because done, blame not him, but me! 1 pushed Robert did not do It! A gentleman was him down! My God, I pushed him robbed In the club, and It was discov down!" **••••• ered Immediately, and a dreadful wait His friend Wyvll and he had ridden er said—I can’t tell you, but the money was found on—on my husband. Ills side by side, disarmed after the sur father came in during the disturbance, render. Triumphant Boers, from whose and—be gave Robert some money, and lips at intervals rose hoarse psalms of —and cursed him and sent him away. praise, rode on either side and In front and rear. Some of the ruder Trans- And I”- vaalians. the young and hot blooded, “Poor thing; poor thing!” "I believed It and would not see him. were roused to a high pitch of excite He will never forgive me. The waiter ment by tltelr victory and taunted their took it. The wretch confessed a year prisoners, threatening them with retri ago. Now I must tiud my husband— bution as outlawed raiders. The un and there are other things. He must lucky ultlanders rode gloomily on. un- have suffered horribly, but there is answering, in a manner stunned to happiness for him yet. His father la speeclth-ssness by so overwhelming, io CLARK’S LATEST AND BEST. unexpected, a catastrophe. That spirit CHASING A GHOST. SECONDHAND bMOKES. ed dash, that daring gallop to the Rand, Furnished with solid Disc if you want them. The Way W lisle Hunters tre Some, that revival of mediaeval chivalry which . i ( Unr Stubs I n a Lavrative Wood Extension Head if you prefer it. time» Fooled l»> -Spoullnat.” llllNillt'IN In >aples. their hot. naught recking brains had All "tfel, Reversible, Double Lever, Ex- While the right whale Is not so large dreamed would be greeted by an em Buying and selling cigar stubs is a teiiMlon Head. The be.Nt Disc Harrow now on the market. Lightest draft. Does the best work. pire's cheer, had come to this humili large and lucrative business In the nor so vicious as the sperm whale, (lie Can be used to throw the earth to or from the tree. ating defeat half way and an Ignomin city of Naples, and many |>ersons are danger of hunting it is greater. In Can be drawn together and used In the regular ious procession to prison, iierltaps to engaged in It. Some of them have company witli a fleet of ships, also length or extended as shown. 5, 6 and » feet cut are reversible and carry the Extension Head. 10 the gallows. Two or three proud hearts, little stalls or shops near the docks, bound for the arctic whaling grounds, and 12 feet cut are not e ’sible. yersry. we ignorant of their captors’ real mind and the arsenals and the manufacturing says J writer !n a c abhorrent of such an eml, welcoming establishments where workingmen are sailed from San Francisco tn Febru FARMERS AND MANIFACTLRERS’ ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, any fate but that, made hopeless darts In the habit of passing to and from ary. and early In April we encountered 22*2 Mission Street, Sun Fruncisco. for the open veldt In a useless effort to their tasks. Others, with less capital, tlie edge of the ice in Bering sen. The escape. These were shot down—poor, have little stands at street corners, a whales live far In tlie Ice, and thither The Lost itlautis. importers and Dealers in unlucky exiles from home, who had board laid across a saw horse, upon we went to And them. Occasionally a BLAKE, Book, N»w», "Tlie Lost Atlantis " is a favorite sub vainly sought retrieval of name ami which their stock in trade is displayed, mother seal with one or two pups Writing and ject <>f song and story, and even now MOFFITT fortune ou the riut of the death pit. while the petty dealers In this line of would dispute our way. She would st range tales are told by sailors who Wrapping... & TOWNE ( to be continued .) not fly because of tlie little ones, hold business exhibit their stock in little CARD 8TOOK claim to have seen a great white city piles uiHin the sidewalk, sometimes ing lier ground quietly, with fear in STRAW AND BINDERS' BOARD rearing Its domes and minarets up Civilisation by Chemistry» not even a newspaper being under her eyes, while the pups barked vigor through the green of the sea. Atlantis S5-87-5B-1I1 First 8t. It might be said that the civilization them. ously at our presumption in disturbing T sl . Maia 1SS. 1» SAN FRANCISCO. was a continental island between Eu of a country Is measured by its con Tlie supply comes from the cafes, them. sumption of sulphuric acid, a chemical restaurants, hotels and other public We had been "icing” for more than a rope and America. Solon, as long ago Japanese Walt.tnp Mice. product which is at the bottom of al places. Men and women pick over the week when we reached Cape Navarin, ns Guo B. i'„ learned the story in Egypt, Among tlie many animals which are most every industry. Chemistry is re garbage heaps and the dust boxes, and on the Siberian coast, a bleak, moun and it is from him and later from Pla sponsible for the existence of all explo boys run up and down the pavements tainous, dreary place. The next morn to that the tale has been handed down adopted ns pets there are numerous odd and peculiar creatures. But cer sives. In this last respect, so far as in front of the hotels early every morn ing we saw anotlier ship coming to to modern peoples. Atlantis was reigned over by three tainly one of the oddest is the Japanese usefulness for war is concerned. It ing looking for "snipes." Some of the ward us, the dense black smoke from Mice have been might be deemed destructive, but in Its restaurant and cafe keepers sell the her try works showing she had recent kings of marvelous power, and the In waltzing mouse. production of fertilizers It is creative, privilege of picking up the cigar ly caught a whale. In the afternoon habitants were a warlike people far brought under cultivation and have and In Its manufacture of medicines it stumps In their places to dealers, and we pushed on beyond tile cape, and advanced in civilization. The three been so altered In appearance by the is preservative of human life. Chemis tlie proceeds amount to a considerable the lookout was cautioned to be extra kings finally became so puffed with fancier that tlielr original wild rela try lias made It practicable to produce sum during the year. In other places vigilant. From liis place in the crow’s power that they united forces and tives would fail to know them. Yet n pure quality of gas for illuminating It is one of the perquisites of the head nest he scoured tlie sen with a long planned a descent on Europe, the pur the fancy mouse, with hlB wonderful purposes. There would be no good inks waiter. glass, and presently there came the pose of which was to destroy and en markings, Is a very ordinary creature slave. The Athenians met the Invaders compared with this wait. ' •n ember if it were not for chemical science. Some of the stubs are taken to fac welcome cry. “Blo-o-o-w off' the lee and after a fearful battle gained a de of the family. Where would photography be but for tories, where they are cut up and man bow!" cisive victory. Two days later mighty It is no doubt true that chemistry, upon which the whole art ufactured into cigarettes and smoking Every man strained liis eyes. On the earthquakes shook the earth, and tre depends? tobacco, but the greater part of them edge of tlie ice some two miles away mendous inundations came. When hangs by tlie tail of mat Tlie waltzing mouse probably k^M h.s The whole leather industry depends are sold to the lower classes of work was the familiar spout. Tlie wind had upon chemistry, for tanning is a chem ingmen. sailors and dock wallopers, died away until there was not a ripple peace succeeded elemental turmoil, the in view, as his main objed^^^^fe ical process. Mineral oils, such as kero who smoke them in their pipes. At on the sea. Boats were lowered. sails sea stretched where once had been At appears to be to catch an I his own tail, the contortions ai d gyra sene. are purified by chemical means, the entrance of the navy yard, which Bet and everything made ready, We lantis. tions in which he indulges dur.ug the and the same may be said of vegetable Is upon one of tlie most frequented drifted about helplessly. Every man Scrntrhrd Off. process being decidedly unique. The oils and of all the pigments employed streets in Naples and in a very con knew that to plnci an our or paddle in "If it please your honor," said a lank mice sometimes perform in pairs, but for painting. Many kinds of foods are spicuous place, half a dozen of these the water would “ "gully gully" ” the tlie whale, individual who had been summoned for they are different to ordinary dances preserved by the help of salicylic m id secondliand cigar dealers can be found for tlie big animals have a marvelous and other chemicals, which are not when tlie men are coining out of the ly acute sense of bearing, and tlie min Jury duty, "I’d like to be excused on in that they waltz head to tail, turn harmful when used in very small quan gules at the close of tlielr day’s work. ute there is an unusual sound they dis account of Illness. I’m suffering from ing so quickly that it is difficult to tell something that might prove embarrass where one begins and the other ends. tities.—Saturday Evening Post. The employees are not allowed to appear. ing to the other Jurors and is certainly Tlie faculty of waltzing is hereditary, One boat drifted in tlie direction of embarrassing to me." smoke Inside, and their wages do not for tlie young mice of this variety Wot Worried hy tlie Leak. permit them to Indulge In the luxury tlie spouting, which continued with "What is the nature of your Illness?” evince a tendency to spin as soon as Strange replies are often received by of cigars or even smoking tobacco nt rlockllke regularity. Presently the asked the Judge. they are old enough to move about. wives wlio wake their husbands for first hand, so, for a centissimo, which sail of that boat was dropped, and the "Well," said the young man hesitat There are no special markings In the burglars, leaky water pipes, etc., in is the smallest coin Imaginable—one- men rowed back to tlie ship. We had ingly, "I ’ d prefer to tell you In private. waltzing mice, though they can be the early morning. Mrs. C., wife of a fifth of 1 cent they buy a cigar stub, been “chasing a ghost.” Tlie spouting I'm somewhat delicate almut speaking obtained In several different colors. certain government official In Balti crumble it up in their hands and cram was caused by water spurting through of it In public.” more, Is decidedly nervous and has fre It into their pipes. -Chicago Herald. fl hole In the fee with each heavy “I cannot bear anything in private," To Broil Racon. quently “heard things." One morning swell. responded the Judge impatiently. "If Broiled bacon is a dish which In few she thought she smelled gas. Bravery you want to lie excused, you must tell households deserves the adjective, be GRANT AND OCHILTREE. came to her mysteriously, and she COOKING HINTS. me here and now what is the matter en use It is seldom broiled; the fat 1> crept down stairs to Investigate. After with you.” fried out of It aud again soaked into smelling about for some minutes she Tlie (»rlevnnce the President find Don ’ t salt cucumbers or eggplant “Well, if I must tell it here—I have it by long sputtering in a spider full AmiiiiNt the Colonel. rushed up stairs, called Mr. C., then before cooking, It makes them Indi- the Itch.” “After the war,” said a veteran of of grease. shook him and at last aroused him. gestible nnd unpalatable. "The Itch?" echoed the judge, and, ficeholder, “ a warm friendship sprang The only way to cook bacon—both Then this was heard: Avoid peeiing rhubarb when It is turning to the clerk, without marking for tlie matter of appearance and for "John, there’s a leak In the gaspipe up between General Grant and Colonel young and tender, for it only needs how apropos his observation was, said, digestive qualities Is to brqil it, not in the kitchen. We’ll all die if it Is not Tom Ochiltree, although they had wiping witli a damp cloth before using. “Mr. Jones, scratch the Juror off.”—St. over a bed of coals (it is too fat for fought on opposite sides. When Grant Axed.” A piece of tough meat can be very Louis Globe-Democrat appointed a large number of people that», but in a very hot oven. Cut the Leaks had beeu heard of before, and who had been under him to federal nicely stewed in a double boiler. It bacon in the most delicately thin slices Mr. C. sleepily asked: A Story of Lincoln. offices, he also appointed Ochiltree. will take twice as long, however, as If possible, rejecting the rind, Lay the "Is It a-leakiag much now?” cooked directly over the lire. It was a frequent custom of Lin- pieces close together tn a tine wire “Not much!” screamed his wife. And Tom hud been ’under him’ in a senBe. Fish which contain few bones may coin’s to carry his children on his broiler. Place It over a dripping pan Tom was made United States marshal then as Mr. C. turned over tills sooth be converted Into fillets by dividing shoulders, says The Literary Digest. tn Texas. and set in a hot oven. It requires to ing advice was given: He rarely went down street that he be turned Just once. The fat which "Well, you know, in those days Tom the flesh from tlie backbone in long, “Put a bucket under it and come to took a very deep interest In the ponies wide strips and then removing any did not have one of liis younger boys falls Into the pan makes excellent bed."—Baltimore Sun. and was a sort of patron saint of rac smaller bones. Soles supply the best mounted on liis shoulder, while en drippings for frying potatoes. other hung to tlie tail of his long coat, ing in tlie new southwest. He was so fillets. Drain the bacon on brown paper. A l.lKlit Heart Under Failure. much admired by horsemen generally Crusts and crumbs of bread left over The antics of tlie boys with their If you wish to serve calf's liver with A light heart under failure is a con that it became quite the thing for own from tlie table should be dried, put father and tlie species of tyranny this, sprinkle the liver with pepper dltion of success which may be written ers to name tlielr horses after him. At aside for rolling and dipping or to lie they exercised over him are still the mid salt, roll It tn flour and fry brown down as an essential. No one should cue time there were not less than a used In scalloped dishes or mixed with- subjects of talk In Springfield. Roland in the bacon drippings. Serve with a need to be warned against the deleter! dozen horses running at various tracks a few sliced apples and linked and Diller, who was a neighbor of Mr. curled morsel of bacon on top of each ous effects of the blues. Nothing dead under tlie mime of Tom Ochiltree. Lincoln, was called to the door one piece of liver. Bacon as served by the served ns a dinner dessert. ens the heart of enterprise or unstrings "Everything went lovely until Tom To prevent sausages bursting when day by hearing u great noise of chil average cook, well soaked In grease. the nerves of action like a tit of the came up to Washington, several months dren, and there was Mr. Lincoln strid Is the most Indigestible of food; when blues. In one of those beautiful pray after assuming his new duties. In the cooking put them Into a saucepan, cov ing by witli the boys, both of whom broiled crisp In the oven. It Is a dish er them witli cold water and bring ers which Robert Louis Stevenson course of his visit lie called at tlie were walling aloud. “Why, Mr. Lin that may lie served even for a child of wrote for us 111 his Samoan household White House for a conference with this to a boil, lifter which take them coln. what’s the matter with the boys?" two years with impunity. Among all out and fry them In the usual wny. be prayed for “courage and gayety the president. After talking generall lie asked. the fats delicately crisped bacon ranks Tills, it Is said, will not only prevent and a quiet mind.” A man who backs ties for awhile Tom noticed that the "Just what's the matter with the next to cream in ease of digestion. will the sausages from bursting, but up his brains with these three gifts president seemed to have something on whole world," Lincoln replied. “I’ve has all the odds in Ins favor. It Is next Ids mind didn't appear to be as frank Improve tlielr flavor. got three walnuts, and each wants Indian Prayer Stick«. to impossible that he should fall in and cordial as usual. He finally asked two.” Those acquainted with Indian cue Aii AtclilMon Lynching. what he undertakes to accomplish. General Grant what the trouble was, toms know of the prominence that Here Is a story of a lynching in tlie Wlnd as a Destroyer. Gayety is the essence of power. What hinting Hint the chief executive might feathers hold In the religious and so is there in a failure or two to cry about not be satisfied with the manner In early days of Atchison: A man named The ravages wrought upon sen bluffs cial ceremonies of the red men. Par or in a dozen failures when you know which the marshal's office was being Sterling was hanged first. He was a during great storms are often due to vicious fellow and did not flinch. In the wind ns much as to the ocean ticularly among the Navajoes and Pu you are bound to get there?—Richard conducted. eblos are these plume emblems be deed, while tlie rope was around his Le Gallienne in Success. “ ‘Well, I'll tell you,’ said the presi neck he announced that he was the waves. Sand and salt spray driven for lieved to have the utmost efficacy for dent, ‘I don’t like the way you've been best man In Kansas. Sandy Corbin, hours before a violent wind act like a good or bad. “The Arnbiuu Niffhts.” gigantic sand blast, eating away with running about tlie country, following All about any Pueblo town may be That most fascinating book, “The the races. I see by tlie sporting col one of the lynching party, was some surprising rapidity the layers of gravel Been carefully whittled eticka, each Arabian Nights’ Entertainment,” Is not umns of tlie papers that first you are what of a fighter himself and did not and sand of which many projecting the work of any one man or men, but In Louisville, then you’re in New York, like Sterling’s talk. “Men.” lie silid to headlands are composed. Tlie surfaces with a tuft of downy feathers, gener- simply a compilation of Arabian folk next you're in Saratoga and next some the lynchers, "If you will postpone pro of bodies exposed to such a wind are ally white ones, bound at the top of it. lore tales, doubtless told In the bazaars where out west. I would rather you ceedings ten minutes I will take the soon pitted. In a great gale in 1890 a They are prayer sticks and are quite by professional raconteurs so often as stayed at home and looked after your conceit out of this scoundrel." The single night sufficed to convert the as curious ns the prayer wheels of committee thought It would not be window panes of tlie life saving station Burma and the paper prayers of the to make them history. These tales have office.’ "—Washington l’ost. Chinese. The feathers, stick and man proper to let Sandy whip Sterling be at Truro into ground glass. suffered many alterations and In their ner of tying the feathers vary accord fore hanging biin, am! tlie lynching present form allow traces of translation The Three Menl Habit. ing to the nature of the prayer. The went on, although Sandy grumbled “Green Goods** FonmilH. to Egyptian soil. The date of the ac Our three meal habit is a fearful One of tlie most remarkable books Indian who wishes to ask a favor of cepted version is not earlier than 1450 tnx on our working capacity. It trebles loud and long because Sterling’s bluff was not called. — Atchison Globe. ever published Is tlie “Litliographla the "Trues" prepares his feather A. D. The book was first introduced tlie temptation to overeating. Our Into Europe through a translation from champions stagger under the weight of Wlrceburgensls," ' written by a Wurz- prayer with great secrecy. Then, tak A Tiny Flower's tlrral Mrnnnire. Arabic into the French by one Antoine a physiological handicap. One-half of burg naturalist named Bellringer In ing it to a proper spot, he prays to The trailing arbutus lias only one 1726. Probably very few copies are those above, and, planting his stick, Galland in 1704. The manuscripts used tlie functional energy of tlie system is very near relative, and it lives in Ja In existence, as the author destroyed leaves It to continue bis petition. by him bore the date of 1548. diverted by the exigencies of digestion. pan. This tells to the botanist a strange possession of soon i No other hygienic mistake has done so story. When North America was warm, Illi that he could get Too Hnrly. No Srnantlon Intended. much to make us n generation of dys er, the parent of both spread over after tlie book appeared. One raw February morning an In He had been victimized by some Among the printed and posted regu peptics as the custom of after dinner lations of one of the New York public work. Its victims, moreover, incur the northern America and Asia. Witli the practical jokers, wlio had made a structor In the University of Michigan schools are these Instructions for the risk of contracting that form of moral descent of the Ice cap, in the glacial great variety of artificial "fossils" and was calling the roll of an 8 o'clock period, the flowers were forced down hidden them in a quarry, to which class in English. fire drill of the pupils: dyspepsia called pessimism. It tends "Mr. Robbins," said be. “Fire Drill.—(a) Three Bells-To the to rob the working day of its reward. ward, one on the east coast of Asia Ilie.v then enticed tlie professor. Behr There was no answer. aud one on the eiiBt coast of America. inger was overjoyed by so rich a find sidewalk and return with clothing. —Success. "Mr. Robbins,” in a slightly louder They have been separated just long and had no suspicion of the trick, al “(b) Four Bells—To the yard and re enough and under surroundings just though many of the fossils were of a voice. turn without clothing.” Alcohol and Tobacco. Still no reply. different enough to have made a little very grotesque character. As a matter of fact, this performance According to the London Lancet, “Ah,” said the instructor, with a He took his treasures home, made is not as sensational as this principal’s when evil effects ensue from smoking difference in tlielr appearance nnd hab quiet smile, "come to think of It, ft is ambiguity might suggest, for the cloth tobncco they are very much Intensi it, and yet tlielr common origin Is still elaborate drawings of them and wrote ing referred to is only the outer wraps fied by Indulgence in alcohol. Pyri easily traceable.—Ladles' Home Jour a minute description of each, as well rather early for robins.” This Is Current Literature's anecdote as an exhaustive commentary tilled and bats of the children.—New York dine, the chief poisonous constituent of Ml. of the late Moses Colt Tyler, who later with ingenious and plausible theories. Mall and Express. The Clerical Garb. tobacco smoke. Is not so easily soluble When ho luid published the liook, the became professor of history at Cor When Martin Luther laid aside the In water as in alcohol. Pyridine has'*» Jokers confessed, and then, of course, nell, and It shows him in the pleasing “The Ghost of Leap Year.’’ ran be easily traced In the mouth of monk's clothes which hail up to that the professor did his utmost to BUP- light of a man who could be boyishly In France there Is a popular tradition an Immoderate smoker and especially tl iuie been bls garb, the elector of Sax gay at n gray and cheerless hour—no among the peasantry, especially those the smoker of cigars. An alcoholic ony sent him n piece of black cloth. press the work. small feat, if one stops to consider an of the Seine country and of La Chatre, drink Is, therefore, calculated quickly Black was at the time court fashion, instructor’s provocations to morning concerning a demon called “the Ghost to wnsh out tills poisonous oil and to and Luther had a suit made of it ac Italian» Eat Much Floor. dullness. of Leap Year.” It 1 b said that every carry It into tlie stomach. Tlie Italian peasant probably con- cording to the prevailing cut of tlie leap year this peculiar sort of evil de time, liis pupils followed Ills example, sumes more flour than the peasant of Abont Printers' Marks. mon makes Ills dread appeurnnee. The and henceforth black became the dis any other European country, because The Interrogation mark or “point” (?) an Irish Fishing Story. creature’s sole pleasure is to be dis There Is i good fishing story In an tinguishing hue of clerical garb. It the manufacture of flour Into various was originally a "q” and an “o,” the pleased with everything and every Irish contemporary. Two enthusiastic was not, however, for many years aft forms of macaroni 1 b common In all latter placed under the former. They body. His shape Is not distinguishable anglers arranged u fishing match to de erward that the cut of a clergyman’s tlie poorer Italian households. Italians were simply the first and last letters of in member, Joint or limb, but taken al cide tlie respective merits of the worm coat became In any way different from are peculiarly ingenious also In their the Latin word "questlo.” So, too, with together Ills hideous and uncanny ac treatment of dough, which they make the sign of exclaiuntlon or Interjection that of the laity. tions make him a much dreaded mon and the minnow as bait. For hours Into many curious and appetizing (It. In Its orlgiual purity It was a com they snt patiently ou a bank without ster. Palm Leaf ('radlea. forms. bination of "1” and "o,” the latter un getting so much as a nibble. At last In the palm region of tlie Amazon derneath, as in tlie question mark. The tlie proprietor of the worm suddenly Docs. Wrote Himself Dowa. two stood for “Io,’ the Latin exclama There are In France 2,864,000 dogs, said that he laid got a bite, and, jerk river there Is a tribe whose infants are "The prisoner knocked me down, an average of 75 to every 1,000 human Ing liis line out of the water, discov cradled in palm leaves. A single leaf calling me n scarecrow, a wall eyed old tion of Joy. The paragraph mark is a Greek “p,” the initial of the word par beings. Irish dogs, curiously enough, ereil at tlie end of it the other man’s turned up round the edges, according to fool, a reformlng rooster, a dolt and an agraph. The early printers employed a come next, with a percentage of 73 per minnow, which, having by this time native custom, makes a capital cradle idiot. ” dagger tn show that a word or sen- 1,000. England lias only 38 per 1,000, grown hungry, had devoured his worm and on occasion does service as a bath. This was the conclusion of the depo- tence was objectionable and should be Strong cords are fashioned from the Germany 31 and Sweden only 11. It Is fibers of another kind of palm by which Bition. He affixed his signature, which cut out. stated that Germany claims to have Pity to Punish Roth. the leaf cradle Is suspended under a was preceded by the formal entry, "All almost 2,500.000 dogs, Russia only Strenuous Father—Tommy, this hurts tree, and the wind rocks the baby to of which I swear to be true,” and left Disappointed. 1,500,000 and Turkey, oddly enough, me ns badly ns It hurts you! "So you advise me not to sue?” said the court.—New York Herald. Bleep. only 350,000. Tommy—Web. then, pop (boo-boo!) the client. Makins It Important. seems to me there's uo use In two suf The presence of the pipe in public In "I do,” said the lawyer. A Blllna Retort. A lecturer in Cork once began an ad Paris Is not anything like as marked ferin' for the faults of one! Let's call “Well," returned the disappointed Lady Wortley Montagu, one of Eng it off!—San Francisco Bulletin. dress by remarking very solemnly, as In England. The French still regard client, "it seems strange that when a land's most brilliant women, incurred "Parents, you may have children, or this mode of consuming tobacco as in man pays for advice he can’t get the Pope’s undying haired in the following if not your daughter may have,” and tra dig. kind he wants,”—Chicago Post. Hunting. manner: Tlie poet, who was deformed Ascutn—nello! Where did you get concluded with, “There is no man, If you have a dime, don ’ t make your The white convicts employed on the and very dark and addicted to question thnt black eye? woman or child In this audience who ing everybody, once asked her to define has arrived at the age of fifty years self believe it is a dollar. That Is what breakwater at Cape Town are Bending Downes Hunting. an Interrogation mark. Slie defined it but that has felt these mighty truths you do when you atop work to tell a loyal address to King Edward pray Ascutn -Gun kick you? wliat a good man you are.—Atchison ing his clemency on the occasion of the as “a little, crooked, black thing that Downes oil. no. I was Just hunting thundering through their minds for Globe. approaching coronation. asks questions.” centuries." trouble. I 11 i la delpliIn Cress. dead aud his brother. The title aud estates are his. and everybody knows of his innocence. Oh, do—do help me to And him!" “My, my, my! To think of it!” cried the landlady, excited beyond measure. “To be sure we’ll And him; don’t you fret, dear. And this Is bis boy—poor, pretty boy! To lie sure, we’ll And him. But don't you know what name he went by?” “I think—he was disheartened aud reckless,” said the lady, crying, "and got Into trouble. That was my blame, poor fellow! No wonder he thought all the world was against him. “I think in the misery and despair he did things,” said the lady, crying, "and changed his name more than once. We found that In Johannesburg he was known as Lawrence, but he left there suddenly, and we heard that he had come in this direction. “Lawrence!” said the womau. shak ing her head. “I know none of that name.” “Oh, think, think, think!” cried the wife, rising In her anxiety and taking both hands of her new friend in her own. “Think! In a little place like Vryburg you must see everybody who —oh, oh, oh!” In rising she faced the Areplace, and on the mantelpiece rested a pocketbook, a neat morocco affair, which, as the landlady had observed, had been left by the new trooper on the piano In the hurry of the raiders’ preparation to join Dr. Jameson. The lady ran to it with a loud scream and opened It, crying: “It Is his; It Is Robert's! I gave it to him myself!” In her hurry her trembling Angers fumbled over the clasp, and the book, opening suddenly, several papers fell upon the door. The lady’s loud cry brought In the landlord aud the law yer’s clerk and one other. In their con centrated observation of the unwonted feminine the hotel people had paid no attention to the appearance of the oth er arrival in a carriage from the train. He was a solitary traveler and had not clamored for attention. Now he stood coolly at the door, watching the unusu al excitement within the parlor. No body noticed his presence. “Mr. Brown,” cried the lady to the clerk, “we have found him! Oh, how PAPERS
