importers ami dealers in
bystander nearest him and staggerin
DON'T READ IN BED.
THE GAME OF GAMES.
"I don t exactly umlerstaiid. 1 said.
BLAKE,
Book, Niewe,
"Well, the situation Is this, son.” said away asking for an officer lu a hu»K.>
MOFMTI
Writing atad
It 1» m IlHliseroae Practice While Golf. .»>« Illi» Writer. Involve« Art,
Fearson. »|xiikliig slowly and pulling voice.
Wrapping...
s.*lel««*e mid I n»pl r.IIon.
I., Inn Do»» n. Says au Aalhurlty.
&
TOWNE
ON
MAY
28
OCCU"S
THE
ANNUAL
at Ids long mustache. "Do you remem
The pistol smoke smelled like a nox
OARD «TOOK
It Is true thut there is u point of
Reading ill lied 1» seriously advised,
ber the pictures of the ‘Dance of oils gas and nearly overpowered me.
CARNIVAL OF "FLITTING.”
STRAW AND BINDERS' BOARD
view
from
which
golf
may
be
regarded
so
the
newspapers
say.
by
a
physician
Death’ In the library?”
They carried Fearson. or dragged
Ft mt St.
as conducive to "repair aud resting." as an extremely simple game the very
I recalled al once the drawings of him. rather, into tin* nearest washroom
T«t. M ain Itt. H IAN FRANCISCO.
One II bj In Kueh V ear When Furni
“relieving congestion.” "emptying the simplest of nil tin* games with a bull
Rolandaon the skeleton armed with a and laid him on tlie floor, with some
ture till* unil Clino» Ita-tnu Su
¡I By JAMES BARNES
<► dart aliout to attack some unsuspecting dirty towels underneath bis bead. I
veins overfill«*«! by prolonged eyework,” und a dub. »•.'• William G. Brown in
—An Odd Uynlem. Built t ,, on
tin* June Atlantic. Tlie player’s object
°
»
° person In the midst of happiness or con knell beside him and placed my cheek preme
etc.
the Caution of the landlords.
o
■
° tentment.
It is plain that placing the head back is simple and single to tlie isiiut of
close against Ills. Due of Ids lungs was
i >
Copyright, 1901, by J»me» Barnes.
< >
“Yet I do not exactly understand.” I tilled with blood, but he could whisper.
In Scotland May 28 is annually given in a horizontal position so absolutely simple uilndednoss und singularity, one
meets tlie whole problem of a relief of might say to put u small ball in u
said. “Speak plainer.”
"Have you a pistol. Tom?” he said in over to a perfect carnival of "flitting.”
In England houses of the higher congestion by gravity mid it Is such a small hole with the fewest possible
Fearson appeared to look over my my ear. "Put It lu my pocket. It’ll go
I saw him many times in the next
two years; but his life and mine were head, but he answered slowly and dis easier with him If they find a pistol he rents are taken by the year at any very Important problem that it seems strokes. But so are the objects of the
was crazy—meant to save him—stood quarter day and the lower rented ones strange that people with weak eyes highest ambitions, the guiding stars of Hrl£ht'H DI hcuhc hik I Diabete.
wide apart, and lie seemed to have for tlnetly:
“There’s some one looking for Roach, between me und a knife, he did, once by the month or even by the week. do not habitually practice reading in a careers tlie most perplexed und devi
gotten my existence.
Are Positively Curable.
Three years sailed past In the fog. and Death Is with him,” he said. long ago—cut him to strings." He was The flitting Is thus spread over the rccuuilieiit position perfectly comforta ous. It is trui*. likewise, that nil the
Before tin1 next wotdd come and go I "Something will happen here, I take It, lisping thickly. "Met them on train, year, and no confusion arises. The ble. Such advice, carried out with ab count less strokes a golfer makes are
would lie a member of the bar of Cali In the next few mluutes If’— Sudden she managed to tell me. Terrlss got Scottish system is to let houses by the solute care ns to light and tlie position resolvable into three kinds of stroke
While th® Fullou Compounds were undcrex-
fornia. I was of age and had fallen In ly he about faced and walked slowly hold of Roach's letter. They were go year from May 28. Even tin* smallest, of the book, would in the ease of a driving, approaching and putting. But
love. This, with a certain self reliance Into the hotel lobby. He was breathing iug to clear out—swore to kill him, Ter consisting of uuly one room, are so let. thousand busy people add largely to Mr. Everurd, In u lecture unsurpassed uniiuaiiuu, on«- of the in^ustiguturs wt-ut lu one
of
the best km>wu physicians in Sau b’cancisco
Fight distracted him—she On tin* great day in any large town the the number of hours which reading for truth and brilliancy by any lu all und asked him to mime a cri tain case of
•ome small success had brought me, loudly and trying hard to swallow, like rlss did.
could
he
Indulged
in
without
detriment
the
extremely
clever
literature
of
golf,
lights
afforded
range
from
the
laugh
must have changed me somewhat. Yet a man whose throat Is parched with lost nerve—blabbed—been golug on foi
has declared that to make those three lirighl'H dist’usu for a h-at. He uuimni C. H.
to the eyes or general health.
when I saw Fearson’s face looking out thirst. Stundlng close to the elevator years. Oh. Tom. I’m going to die— able to the pathetic.
Allen of El Paso, a former vomluutur of the S
Certainly th«* one who gives this strokes aright one must have "art. sci P. Co , as beyoud human aid. Eight pliysieiami
As soon as it is daylight tlie vans
if tlie window of a passing cab 1 for were a man and woman. The man I don't let him know—ride straight!
got my dignity, and. with my green knew by sight. He was dressed In a Pray quick—prayers—O God!" I held previously "trysted” begin their work; strange and pernicious advice could ence and inspiration.”
had declared the <-as.- ehi-ouic Bright' i disease
From tin* moment tin* ball leaves tin* it was typicul albumt n, easts, dropsy, sirup
bag over my shoulder, I ran after the long black coat. Ids hair was gray, and my breath while he was dying, the doc tlie goods are loaded up with more never have tried the plan. Some years
irssness, night sweats and usual wruku'-^s,
haste than care and to the accompani ago there was <lescrllH*d a patented de tee, whether it be top|H*d, pulled or paius ami distrr.xst - Patieut went on the
rattling four wheels and, catching It, Ills eyes, small and narrow, glittered tor fumbling about his chest.
Juue
IVOI. We now ropv from lhe
I remember they covered him with a ment of the good housewife's lamenta vice for suspending the book over tlie sliced or w ild her. struck in proper Compound
|erked at the door handle and almost evilly like a hawk's. His name was
written reports
Terris. I remember having heard It doth from the billiard table. A man In tions as some cherished household god horizontally placed head of a sick per fashion a tritie lieluw tin* medial line
plunged into Fearson’s arms.
Juue 15 - Improxement skin ul- urrr Color
Pathnt much
son whereby reading would lie possible and urged forward with an exquisite better. Albumen ihuiuas,,
He was never exactly demonstrative, said that In the old days the vigilantes a blue coat took dow n my uame. and I is roughly flung into the van.
encouraged.
Arrived nt the destination, further without holding tin* book in the hands. free lashing «mt of tin* wrists, it takes
tint lie was overjoyed to see me and had overlooked him. The woman never struggled through the crowd.
Juno Ji».—Continued improv ■■imut More am
tliminishin;’
Night sweats
•hook me by the shoulders until my tisik her eyes off his face. The paint
1 could not think of what had hap troubles are in store. Perhaps the new Even then one wonders bow tlie light tiiglit as w ith w ings and seeks its true bitious. Albumen
to yirld
on her lips, drawn tight across her pencil and looked stupidly at the heavy house is not yet vacated, and, as the could be made to fall properly on the course us with a uiiud and purpose of beginning
head ached.
July 1.3 -Not so favorable Went to the
But lie was sadly changed. His neat teeth, was blotched, and her mouth had seal lie had slipped off Ids linger Into van Is required for other removals, the page. Without a method of tin* kind its ow n until it drops into the cup with country und began io bloat Returned and
feeling better, though not probabl.v quite so
ness In Ills dress was gone, and then a blurred appearance. Her frightened my hand hut a few minutes before. goods are dumped down in the street, not even a well person could hold a a tintiniiubitlalion that no louder clang well as lust report \ favorable indication is
the disapisjarum-e of the night sweats
hook
five
minutes
above
the
eyes.
hands
rubbed
against
the
side
of
her
or
pivau
ever
surpassed
in
its
sugges
lie smelled of liquor. Ills face was
Tlie crest had been defaced, and I and there the poor family is left
July 19—Dropsy .igaiu disappsiurinr
Albu-
pale and rather worn, and Ills eyes skirt. 1 saw all this from following could make out the word "veritas" stranded for the time. Occasionally Reading in bed lias ruined thousands tion of vlctor.i and consummation, nn’U getting less and less.
Aug. 1 —Improvement continues
some streets—In Glasgow, tor instance of good eyes. Unless one sits up In there is no foreseeing what perplexity
were not so clear and bright as they Fearson’s eyes. The elevator slid down spelled backward.
Aug. 13—Patient claims lie is nearly well.
used to be. despite his sleepless nights. and stopped softly. The man grasped
Perfunctorily 1 finished the errand 1 - present an appearance of wholesale bed ns if In a chair It is impossible to or temptation to carelessness or over Continued iuipiovonieut. and patient recum
mended for light employim-m. 1 k * idle anul.x» s
hold the book in such a position that confidence it will present.
the woman by the arm and went In had started on earlier In the day, the evictions.
I saw he had been 111.
by railroad surgeous in El Paso show us fol
Not twice off tlie lee ground and the lows :
So numerous are the demands that tlie arms are not quickly tired mid so
Almost his first inquiry was for side. But before the boy could close filing of some papers at the courthouse,
the
door
Roach
stepped
quietly
around
Unit
tlie
liglit
fulls
on
it
properly.
When
putting green will the possibilities and
anil, still dazed, I heard the newsboys vans cannot always he obtained, and
Spec Grav............................................. hr.’s
Itoacn. Had I seen him? “No, not
Reactiuu .........................
V id
every kind of vehicle, Including horse reading lying down, there is a traction probabilities of the stroke be quite the
fur months.” I felt piqued that he did the shaft, conilug from some side en calling "extra” on the street.
Sugar.................................
None
not ask me about myself. It seemed trance.
There is the sum of the following less carriages, popularly known as upon the inferior recti muscles which is same. In the lie. the wind, tlie dis-
Albumen ........................................ Truce
Exum, for Casts.......................... Nom»
Fearson and I were close lieblnd him. day. and 1 have finished. 1 did not go "hurleys," are pressed into the service, highly injurious. Every patient should tunee to be traversed, the obstacles to
unkind.
writ Ing. January Id, IWhJ. patient is
“Don’t leave me, Tommy, my boy,” and we all three entered the narrow to bed that night. 1 thought I should supplemented by father, mother and lie warned nev<*r to read In bed except he curried, there are variations not to ®ot At yet this
entirely recovered but Is still on the
never sleep again, and 1 made all the the children, each carrying pictures, when sitting up as vertically as In a la* reckoned by any known mathemat treatment and getting better coni iuuallv
he said. “Drive with me. We must box together.
What happened then came so quickly arrangements for Fearson’s funeral alt mirrors or other cherished articles too chair.—American .Medicine.
ics.
find the Rajah.”
Medical works agree that Bri. hfs Dismiss
and was such a shock to me that I feel er the Inquest with a heavy heart. No precious to trust to tlie tender mercies
Then, as the match approaches its and Diabetes are iueurable, but «7 pci cent,
The cab rumbled on again.
are positively recovering under the l,’ullou
alm.
t
faint
uow
when
1
remember
It.
of
sonic
ramshackle
conveyance.
dreadfully
quiet
climax
of
defeat
or
one
knew
anything
of
Ids
family
or
his
I looked at Fearson closely. I felt
STRONG PULSE BEATS.
Compoumlb ^Common I'oiins ot kLIm-v <*oni
Roach turned and saw Fearson. but past. 1 seemed to be his only friend,
These processions are moving along
victory, tin* responsibility may grow plaint and rh umatlsin offer hut short resist«
as If It were not he at all. He placed
In Which They Are Perceptible positively appalling. The very delib uni'c.i Price, fl for the Bright > Disease and
his hand on my knee In the old way, before he could say a word something tine thing I knew—he was a gentleman all day. Tlie representative of law
11.'»‘J for the Diiilu'iic Com pou n * John J l,’ul-
Io the Eye.
eration which, impossible In most ton Co, 12b Montgonuiv st.. Sai; Erancisea,
The second day I slept, and when I and order, upon this day at least, is
and at last he broke the silence. He came from Fearson’s lips—a sound
coui|M>undci-s Eree tests ma u for pa
"It is not such mi uncommon thing,” games, is so characteristic of this, so Bole
told me that lie had only just arrived short and horrid like the breaking of a awoke there was a note brought to me very lenient, bls gruff "Move on!” Is
tients. Descriptive pamphlets mailed free.
bone.
said
a
physician,
“
to
find
a
person
less
In
evidence,
and
bis
ready
note
far
from
lessening
the
strain
on
one's
from Roach imploring me to call and
In town. "Back from hades and no
And be struck Roach full In the face see him. lie was held a prisoner It book gets h rest. There are no “cases” whose pulse beats can he plainly seen, nerves, undoubtedly heightens it. One
where.” lie said. But one thing—he
and closed with him.
of obstruction reported, although often mid vet I stipixise there are but few lias time to estimate tlie emergency, to
was not his first affair.
The Tramp It «inly For luy Job.
must tind Roach at once.
Down they went on the floor—Roach
For some reason I felt no resentment loaded vans have to remain in a street outside of tlie profession who realize realiz«* tin* crisis.
The gay vat applies for a job where
I grew frightened at this persistence,
the fact. In most persons the beat
Not tin* fiercest rally at tennis, not be hears idvii an* wanted, ho knows
and fried to tell him about my own with a hoarse, cursing cry. (lod. what toward Roach. I was still numbed. I nil night.
It may be that the "polismati” grasps of tie pulse cannot be perceived, but the longest and timeliest home run at not for what. “Can yon drive four?”
position and future, almost In despera a sound it was! The woman gave a could not analyze my feelings for him
scream and threw herself helplessly I did not care whether they hanged the humors of the situation, or perhaps tlie mere fact that tlie beating is per baseball, not tin* most heroic rush at asks the boss. It may bo the hobo
tion.
a fellow feeling influences him. No ceptible does not mean that the pulse football, require» a more rigid concen doesn’t know whether it is four nails
him or let him go. Fearson was dead.
It was no use. He paid no attention
So 1 went and found him. not In a doubt his own flitting is in progress, is other than normal. 1 have come tration of thought and energy or a or four tent stakes ho is to drive, but
to me. looking out of the windows
cell, but seated In a large cagelike and lie retires off duty to some strange across a number of cases where the more dauntless courage than tlie flick be confidently answers: “Sure thing!
from side to side, and bolting out of
structure in the Jail corridor. He ap abode, there to assist in carrying in tlirotibing of tlie wrist could lie plainly of a putter that sends the ball crawl
Had a job driving lour last month
the carriage Into the places where he
lieared quite comfortable and was his goods, to snp off a crust of bread seen, and yet tlie persons rarely gave Ing mi its last little Journey across the at
” (any of (he 10,<MM) places he has
thought he might find Roach, with a
und cheese and sleep on tlie floor, as evidence of abnormality in tempera putting green when the put is for tlie been Io. so In* can answer questions if
smoking.
"Walt here. I’ll be back" and a slam
ture. They were rarely feverish and hole and the hole means the match. the boss is im-lined to put thenD, and
There was a skylight In the roof ol tiers liave to do.
of thi* door.
A stranger naturally inquires tlie were in good physical condition gen There Is nm a quality of mind or body the next morning, tinding the “four”
above, and the place was full of sun
Two or three times I was tempted
I will not except or qualify at ali
shine. The reality and horror of tlie cause of tlds one day given over to erally. Pulses of this kind, from this
he is to drive are horses, he cmitlden-
to clear out and leave him In the
whole occurrence struck me more for chaos. It is to be found in the cau view which is based upon actual ob- ño. not one. that life itself proves ex tiallv approaches a fellow employee
lurch, but for some reason I did not
cibly. Up to tills time I could hardly tion of tlie Scottish landlord. It is dif servctioiis of eases, do not indicate cellent which a circuit of the links will with. “Say, Bud, show me how I«» put
do so.
ficult to obtain a house at any other miytliing more than an abnormal phys not test.
realize It.
the harness on the plugs, will you?”
From the last place he entered he
Not a detail of tlie place or of the ill time thiin tin* lawful removal day. and ical condition In the formation of the
Asked if he knew how to make watches
shot out on a run.
Th.
Drcln
ra
1
ton.
wrist
veins.
tervlew escaped me. I do not believe 1 tin* canny house owner lias prudently
or dynamite cartridges, he would doubt-
"He's been there!” lie shouted. "Baek
It is a rather curious feet that while lew say he did. He might fail at ei
"I have met with one case which
said a dozen words. Due sentence was secured Ids rent n fortnight previously,
to the hotel. Drive, drive! You lazy
was possibly n little extraordinary in facsimiles of tlie Declaration of inde- ther, but he would not weakly deny
lu my mind. “Caln, you’ve killed your May 15.
devil!” lie screamed to the man on the
".Moonlight" Hittings are thus prac that it was plainer and much more dis pemlenee were common enough sev himself an opportunity to try. Thi® Is
brother.”
box. “Drive quickly!"
As soon as he saw me be arose and tically unknown, and there Is little tinct than any 1 had ever seen before. eral years ago and were largely used not true of all, but It Is a distinctive
tin the way he apologized for Ids ab
began to talk. I would be a witness loss of rent from that cause. The rents It could almost lie heard. The artery for advertising purposes they are now trait born of necessity in men that ®cek
straction. He spoke in high, excited
for
him—I saw the assault, how uti being payable half yearly only, the would rise Io n point almost as large very scare«* so scarce that a Phila employment in muuy and various fields.
voice. 1 could Just hear what he said
prompted it was—and then, "before a cost of collection Is reduced, as Is the ns the ball of tlie little finger of a delphia collector recently paid $10 for —Leslie’s Monthly.
above the roar of our fast driving.
risk of loss, to u minimum. Tin* sys child mid would change from the white one bearing Hie advertisement of a
lady.” He "was in the right.”
He wanted to hear everything about
G.l.l XX'eililliiK Cnatomn.
I did not answer. If I luid. I would tern entails great hardship to working of the skin to a blood purple with each western railroad. The original docu
me, he said. But Just now lie must
men compelled to change the scene of beat of tlie pulse. I found it easy to ment, pt'eserveil in glass, is still to be
In Switzerland tin* bride on her wed
have blurted out the truth.
find Roach. Tonight he'd tell me
Roach went on and culled Fearson a their labors They frequently cannot count the pulse bents without touching seen in the possession of tin* depart ding day will permit no one, not even
everything—we’d have an old time
obtain a house until term day and have tlie patients wrist. 1 could see plainly ment of state in Washington, hut it lias her parents, to kisa her upon the lips.
"crazy fool.” Fearson a "crazy fool!"
powpow.
Just then some one came down the consequently to take lodgings mid sup enough to keep the record, and In order become so faded as to be nearly illeg
In many of the provinces the cook
I tried to smile and nodded as we
not to err in my calculation I tested it llile, by reason of w hich a photograph
corridor and handed him a piece of port their family in iinotlier tow n.
pour» het water over the threshold aft
swung sharp about a corner and pulled
in
several
ways
and
found
it
was
cor
ic reproduction would lx* valueless. er the bridal couple have gone in order
If fortunate enough to obtain a house,
paper through the bars and went away
up at the hotel. It was well we stop
I saw Ills face pale. It was in Fear tlie landlord steps in mid requires his rect and that there was no mistake in James D. McBride bad plates made to keep it warm for another bride. A
ped. The horses’ knees were trembling
my counting with tlie naked eye.”— and secured n copyright on them In favorite wedding day in Scotland is
and their beads pitched forward. He lay acioKs an easy ehair, euuijlilng son’s handwriting, that note. I knew full year’s rent to Is* paid or deposited New Orleans Times Democrat.
1871. hut tlíese plates were later de De<*. 31, ao that the young couple can
in bank before he allows the goods to
that piece of paper; Fearson had scrlb
and itranyUng
Fearson glanced at the clock and gave
stroyed by lire, and none tire now in leave their old life with the ohl year
he
removed.
Tlie
unfortunate
head
of
bled
it
in
the
cab
the
day
before
and
a sigh of relief. He paid the fare In upon the gray man's shoulder, shriek
Orlaln of the Hattlennnkr Fins*.
existence. Consequently tlie copies that and begin their married life with the
a household is also responsible for the
small change fished up from various ing Incoherent words. He half sup left It at the Turf Exchange.
One of tlie most common devices have been preserved are constantly in new oil«*, surely a pretty idea. The
full
year
’
s
rales
of
his
“
new
”
house,
Roach
grew
old
as
lr*
rend
It.
I
had
pockets and was somewhat short of ported her. His coat was open, and
used on the American tlags during tlie creasing in value. Philadelphia Rec
Italian» permit no wedding gifts that
the amount. It wjj quite pitiful to one hand was behind his back. Me rever thought he was so old a man. 1 although lie limy have paid In full at early part of the Revolutionary strug
ord.
ar«* sharp or pointed, from which prac
see his tltigers searching fruitlessly. chanically I pushed the struggling, noticed many things. Ills inustaehi his vacated bouse.
gle
was
an
embroidered
rattlesnake
Tlie only advantage to tlie tenant is
tice emanates our superstition that the
He blushed like a schoolgirl • when I thrusting tangle of great limbs and was dyed, Ills hair was very thin. Ids
Drnry Lane.
aliove or below the legend "Don't tread
handed It to the driver, but made no bodies with my foot, to keep them from gas bleached face was full of tiny security of tenure for twelve months on me!”
Drury
lune
whm iiiiiikh I after tbc gift of a knife severs friendship. One
and the certainty of being accommo
of the most beautiful of all marriage
comment.
the open doorway as the car ascended. wrinkles. Tlie great scar down Ids
The origin of this design lias been great family of tlie Drnrys wlm once
The reeking horses were slowly Roach had stopped bis cursing and cheek stood out like a fresh burn. The dated at the expiry in tlie general traced to a remark made by Ben lived then», and (’lure nniikot after custom» Is that of the bride immedi
scramble. Of course it Imppens some-
ately after the ceremony flinging her
driven off. and I turned to Fearson.
groaned In hasty, Btralning groans. I cigar simply dropped out of Ids nerve
limes. through new houses being erect Franklin. At the time tlie (lag was Lord Clare. The fame of Drury lane bouquet among her maiden friends.
“How long is it Blnce you have seen saw Fearson. who was on top. lean less lips, ami lie made a shivering
I
m
worldwide.
Who
has
not
heard
of
ed. that some one Is able to start the adopted, or immediately before, Eng
She who catches It is supposed to lx*
Roach?” I asked to relieve the silence.
over and bring Ills face close to sound as If lie were cold or freezing.
ball rolling a day or two before term, land was shipping her criminals to the famous pantomimes at Drury Lane the next bride.
“Three years—we split, you know.”
Roach’s. He was saying something- I pitied him.
America and turning them loose ou theater and of tin* many famous actors
Io
the
comfort
of
all
Involved
in
tlie
He finished and spread himself along
“But you were making money?” I low beneath Ills breath—but Roach bit
particular circuit; but. generally speak the defenseless colonists. After sev and actresses who have played there?
Word III I nd ii <‘ mn .
half Inquired.
at him like a fighting dog; Ills teeth the bars for support. He did not say a
ing. May term day in Scotland is not eral murders had been committed by Who has not read of the wild exploits
Some curious instances of the physic
word.
I
could
not
lift
my
eyes
to
Ills
“It’s all back In a hole in the earth. snapped together, and he caught Ills
of
.Nell
(»wyiin,
the
Hower
girl,
who
ob
an institution to be admired and copied. these unwelcome immigrants Ben
al defects of "word blindness" are giv
1 blew It Into the place it came from— own lips between them, and the blood and turned away.
Strange to say. Sandy not only takes Franklin (some say in a Joking spirit) tained such an ascendency over the en In the Lancet. The disease is for
Then I heard a sound that made a
fast as we made It,” Fearson answer reddened over bis chin.
this day philosophically, but is much suggested that the colonists retaliate MviTie Monarch? 1‘epys calls her “Pret tunately uncommon. In on«* case the
ed. "It was the gambling desire, I
Just then the elevator struek the top chill ruu up my back.
mere addicted to "flitting" than people by sending a cargo of rattlesnakes to ty Nell” and records how he saw her sufferer, an Englistnan, thirty four
"I'st!
I'st!
”
The
noise
that
people
of
•oppose. There is no other excitement, and nearly threw me off my feet. Ter-
south of tlie Tweed, some families mov tlie mother country and turning them in Drury lane “standing at her lodg years of age. who knew Greek, Latin
•xcept. perhaps--well, light Ing.”
rlss drew the woman out on the land ten make to attract attention in a
Ing’s door in her smock sleeves and
ing regularly every year without any out In the gardens of the nobles.
1 looked at him In astonishment. He ing, the boy ran shouting down tlie crowd.
bodice. a mighty pretty creature.**— and Frencli well, suddenly lost all
apparent
necessity.
One
would
scarce
knowl«*dge of English, though he cotikl
I glanced around, and such a sight I
probably divined my thought.
hall, and I was left alone with all that
Chambers
’ Journal.
Sliraklna
oi
Hoy.lty.
ly expect the worry and discomfort of
rend and understand Greek perfectly
saw!
“Oli. no; not that," lie said quietly. dreadful struggle on the floor.
Damocles bad been invited to dine
anil Latin and French in a rather
Roach had one arm stretched at full the day and succeeding temporary
“Roach knew. He trusted to my luck.
Fearson glanced at me sideways and
A
(■<»<»«!
Prophet.
chaos to be voluntarily undertaken, but with the king of Syracuse. Upon tak
smaller degree. Another and almost
1 was just a fool. I wanted to get spoke In a hard voice—he was panting length through the cage across the
Cassidy Kearney seems io be doin’
ing bis seat he instantly saw the sword
more curious case was that of a man
narrow passage to the left. There was the fact is so.
rich, and quick. But. Tom, old chap, loudly:
well in his prisint job.
The continuance of the system itself hanging by a iiair above liis head.
who lost the power of reading at sight.
my luck’s gone — and worse, too, I
"1 was just In time. Pull that rope a stand of Springfield rifles there dose
Casey
Ah,
but
lie
’
ll
not
lasht
long
“I suppose,” he said to the king,
is a standing monument to the British
This patient was able to writ«* accu
agaliisi the wall.
fear.” He stopped and bit his teeth and run us down. Hurry!” he said.
In
it!
long suffering mid law abiding nature. “you call that the hair apparent.” Di
rately from dictation, but was com
1 olieyed without u word. How slow
Have you ever seen a person reach
Into Ills lower lip, which was trem
Cassidy Ho seems daelnt an’ sober pletely unable to read what be hud
onysius. pretending to see no humor In
—Pearson’s Weekly.
It seemed to drop, and all the time for something on a high shelf, some
bling.
the remark, replied, ”1 don’t know now.
written. Word blindness Is apparently
"Look here,” he went on nervously. Fearson was talking to the moaning thing he could Just touch with the
Casey Aye. but lie’ll not lasht a ■ kin to color blindness, but is certainly
about that, my boy, but if it falls upon
A Great tlnrgnln.
“I’ve been praying lately. Think of figure under him. whose wrists he held fingers?
month.
Ol
’
ve
said
so
I
ver
since
be
got
Mrs. Winks—A peddler was here to your head It will make some crown
attendeil by much more inconvenient
"Tip it, Tommy” (he never called me
that! And d’ye know. I'm going away In the clasp of his strong fingers.
the Job two years ago, an’ 01’11 l»et consequences.
prints.”
"Don't struggle, Dick. Dash It. man, by that mime before). "Tip It,” he day, and I got the greatest bargain—
soon—back to a little place where most
This shows that the ancients were Oi’in right.- Philadelphia Press.
a whole pound of insect powder for
people have forgotten me. There’s an 1 had to! Don’t you hear me! He was said In a cringing entreaty. “Go ahead;
not averse to Joking even under trying
One Attraction MlNainff.
only
10
cents.
It
looks
Just
like
dirt,
you
can
do
It,
”
lie
lidded,
with
a
hide-
old man Ihlpg there whose heart I’ve going to shoot you! She told me so!
When Iren 4fur.
circumstances.—New York Tinies.
“Say,” said the young writer who
but it's awfully effective. 1 tried it.
broken, and and he’d die happy If I Listen! It's I, old pal. Fearson! I had ous Insinuation.
“
Is
matrimony
an
ideal
condition?
”
bad been engaged by tlie circus man to
Mr. Winks-Worked, eh?
I could not stay there longer, I be
knelt down beside him. I'm going to to do It! Listen! There, stop! I won't
naked the little oik *.
Before and After,
write up a prospectus of the show,
Mrs. Winks—Yes, Indeed. The ped
came
so
weak.
In
my
mind
now
as
I
hurt
you.
Dick!
Dick,
ohl
boy,
he'd
do It. lad. Hod willing, and God help
“In perspective it is,” answered her "I've about exhausted my vocabulary
Single Man (to himself)—1 am sure
dler said I should put a little In water
shot
you
through
Ills
coat!
Came
all
write
I
can
see
a
big
knuckled,
hairy
me!”
toother, with a quick glance In the di-
Could this be the old courageous the way from I’lnto Just to do It! My hand, with a diamond flashing on the and apply it boiling liot. and I did, and that darling little angel loves me. She I cciioii of (lie man who was reading a an this thing. Have you a thesaurus?”
“No, by thunder!” said the circus
lakes
me
Into
her
confidence
and
tells
It
killed
every
Insect
It
touched.
—
New
Fearson—this man whose eyes were God. he doesn’t hear me!”
middle linger, reaching—reaching.
newspaper al (he breakfast table.— man. "We’ve only got a rhinoceros,
me all her troubles.
Roach was moving his hands, still at
Almost as 1 went through the swing York Weekly.
filled with tears and whose voice broke
Same Man (some years later)—Con Chicago Post.
but I'll cable over Hnd buy one.”—New.
weakly? I found myself studying bls tempting to free himself. His eyes fug doors the report came to me.
York Times.
I.eMillnir t’p to It.
ner
n
It
all!
From
morning
till
night
1
heard
voices
Inside
the
building,
face attentively. Before I knew what only showed the whites and he was
For it llit u ’ ii Only a Mun.
Bobbie — You snow them preserves and night till morning, when Um at
was coming he had slipped the gold blowing bloody bubbles through his and a reporter rushed past me, Ids fin e
Mr.
Bixin
There.
I
’
ve
let
my
cigar
The Hiu Fire.
out in th’ pantry wot you told me not home, 1 hear nothing but tales about
ring lie wore from Ills middle finger, teeth.
ablaze with news.
"Yes,” said the conductor. "I remem
the servants, the butcher, the butler, go out. Do you know*, it spoils a ci
.
Fearson looked up at me. "What mil
saying. "Keep It, Tom: not for luck,
The papers were all wrong. They to eat ?
the baker, the candlestick maker and gar, no matter how good It is, if you ber it very well. That was in 181)7, the
Mother—Yes.
dear boy, but Just because I want you I going to do?” he asked. "God help who remember It and read tlds will
year of the big fire.”
all
the rest of 'em! New York Weekly. ti I low it to go out ?
Bobbie
—
You
k.iow
you
said
they'd
me!
I
’
ve
hurt
him
badly!
”
to."
learn the truth.
Mrs. Bixin Yes A cigar is a good
"What big fire?” asked the other
make
me
sick
If
!
et
'em.
didn't
you?
We
reached
the
bottom
at
last
with
As I took it I noticed that Fearson’s
deal like a man in that respect.—-Pitts
Spinach.
man.
Mother—Yes.
palms were calloused and the Inside a creaking blow on the woodwork.
Minned the Lobby Barrel.
Spinach derives Its name from the burg Press
"Don’t you recollect? Twenty-nine
Bobble—Well, they didn't—Ohio State
surface of the ring was scratched and There was a crowd gathered there al
Considerable amusement was cutised Journal.
Spanish monks, who first used It dur
fellows on our line were bounced for
ready.
denied. I balanced It In my baud, and
when the legislature first went Into
Ing fust days. It belongs to the beet
To be trickj and shrewd, that is not knocking down.”—Chicago Tribune.
Fearson let go Ills hold and got lip on session by a member from the counties
for the life of me I could not think of
The Hlrn.lng of Poverty.
family and is generally served as a culture nor is it joy, but to be square
one word to say. I wished to put my Ills feet. He was so cool and earnest arriving and promptly asking to be
What She Sa,-«.
“What a blestln’ Is poverty!” ex vegetable, although It makes a delicate and fl.-ink. that is culture, and it is
arm alsiut lilui and comfort him; but. and appeared so right that no one offer shown the lobby.
and appetizing salad. In the spring, happiness. Seiioolmaster.
claimed the old wan.
"A man enn't tell whether a girl
ed
to
touch
him.
ami
he
backed
slowly
of course, I could not do so then, and
When that place was pointed out to
when mint is fresh and green, a few
“A blessing?"
means what she says,” he remarked
We stood there silent In the lobby, out Into the hall.
him. he nosed around for awhile ami
leaves added to tins spinach will im
“
Why.
yes
When
you're
real
down
The GriflToii. the first sailing vessel thoughtfully.
Two or three men raised Roach, and
Fearson glancing up and down the
then remarked in the hearing of some poor, you have s< b a good time hopin’ prove the flavor, whether It is served on the great lakes, passed through !>•
"Of course not,” she replied. "If be
street and back Into the long corridor he stood there, swaying, deaf and blind bystanders:
*
as a vegetable or a salad.
fer the best!”—Atlanta Constitution
thinks she does, why she Just naturally
trolt river In |t»79.
with the desire to kill, his head thrust
of the hotel.
"I've been fooled!" he declared dis
doesn’t the moment she finds It out.
E« pmslve.
"Don’t think me inquisitive, pray out. as if he peered through smoke, and
gustedly. "They tide me I could find
The Morning'« Work All Ilona-
A Mrnn Hpflrctlon.
don’t." I said at last, "but why are you Ills bloody Jaw dropped horridly. The» a bar’l of money loose in the lobby,
“Pve quit joking my wife about wo and. If he thinks she doesn’t, why she
Mistress Is tb.it sewer gas 1 smell?
Huggins See here, porter. This mir men carrying their p«sket luindker- does.”—Chicago Post.
might have known. It seems to me, btr
so anxious to find Roach?”
but I see now tliet it's a dinged lie!”—
Servant (Intel arrived from Osh ror is so dusty I can’t s«*e myself In it.
He looked at me.
the movement was ao quick perhap
chiefs in their poi’ketliooks,” wild
Baltimore llerahl.
____
kosh)—No, ma’am
I’ve denned the
CraeKy.
Hotel Porter (who has not been tip
"Tommy,” he said, "If I don’t find they could not have stopped It. Tl
Tcns|iot
'It didn’t pay.”
rooms, made th* beds and turned on peil by Buggins, Strikes me yo’ ought
Bill
—
I
bear
a
man In town was ar
Couldn't
He
Guilty
of
That.
him before somebody else does some flush and report came together.
I
"How wis that?" nsked Hunker.
“Never," said the person of good ad the gas ready fo* the night. American to be mighty thankful 'slid o' niaklu' a
thing will happen; mark my words.”
seemed as If something went off Inside
"Shi* wild slic’d curry money in hers rested today for cruelty to animals.
Jill—Is that so?
vice to the delicately nurtured Boston Hebrew.
“Why?" said I.
nty head and burst.
fits» about it. London Tit Bits
If she li ni il
Handed her out $10 on
“Yes; the fellow had a tapeworm,
“It's ail on account of a woman,” he
I saw Fearson lurch forward across youth, "never say ’I can’t.'"
the
spot.
”
Detroit
Free
Press
Still Vonn».
and he refused to feed IL”—Yonkers
Smallpox in tlie United States, ns of
“Indeed, sir." responded the Intel
said; "but what tinder the suit a num an easy chair, coughing and strangling.
Teacher—t aid surprised that you are
iii« I mon icteiuus of German birth Statesman.
like the Rnjali can see In a creature like There was a spattering on the white lectual Ind, “I trust that my diction Is not further advanced, You are extreme ficially reported from Dec. 28, 11)01, to
not so open to criticism
If you will
March 21. liarj. r**aches a total of 24,. are to rnlsi a fund for a monument to
that put me out of It. and yet nt a nod tiled floor.
ly backward foijyoiir age.
IIM eiises. with 708 deaths. Tlie total General Friedrich Wilhelm vou Steu
Light mortals, bow ye walk your life
of her head and It Isn’t even a pretty
Roach drew himself up with the air but be attentive to my conversation,
IJttle Girl Y’ s ’ iii . Mamma wauts for tlx* same period In l'.«M was 11,49(1
ben of the American Revolution to be minuet over bottomless abysses, di
one—I believe he'd go to hades. It’s of a drunken man who tries to keep you will observe that I say ’enwn’t.' ”
ta marry again.
cases, with I I!) deaths
erected lu Washington.
strange, strange.”
vided from you by a dim!—Carlyle.
bls dignity, handlug the revolver to tl.*** Baltimore American
GREATER LOVE
HATH NO MAN
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