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P. V. Hl,ACK
OOM ami roar an<l crash, ami
again ami again throughout
the day amt throughout the
night boom ami roar ami crash!
The siu-r charged upon tlie 'pebbled
beach with the huge wrath of a mon
strous beast.
The screeching wind
rushed lit from the lost eaves lieyond
.the sea, walling and shrieking against
Its relentless hunters. It sought pity
ami shelter from the laud, but the land
shivered ami shook and besought It to
be gone.
Then the • maddened wind
seized the rain and tossed It In torrents
on the roofs and streets. It swooped
upon the waves and grasped the foam
and scattered It far inland. It scratch­
ed up the sand and pebbles ami pelted
them against the walls ami window
panes. Boom and roar ami crash! A
fiercer gale had seldom attacked the
little lonely inn on the beach.
Out in the ¡light, out on the sea, the
fishing boat from strange lands tossed
and tumbled and pitched, groaning and
creaking, plunging and rolling, no bet
ter or stouter in that storm than a
shaving launched by a child. The three
men In It cling helplessly to the spars
ami rails, shuddering with cold and
fear and, with less and less hope as the
hours passed, seeking aid in their ex­
tremity. No light shone: no lifeboat
came. One lost strength and hope and.
scarcely resisting, was swept over­
board with a howl of despair. Anoth­
er began to pray with a foreign tongue
to many saints, but the third held
fiercely to the mast and laughed at his
neighbor’s prayers ami. looking on the
storm, cursed it and defied it.
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Mrs. Holloway could not rest In her
snuggery In the fun. She rose from
her own special rocking chair and
went to the windows, drawing aside
the warm curtains to peep out at the
storm. She could not see two inches
beyond the glass, yet she remained
many minutes at the window, and her
fingers twitched ami clasped each oth-,
er in nervous dread
(file might have,
believed, so fixed was her gaze upon
the impenetrable night, that she really
could see through the storm, could see
across the roaring, racing waves and
advance her spirit farther than man's
ken to meet half way that thing
which was approaching.
From the parlor music came, and the
commingling of voices. A mail’s voice
blended with a woman's so harmoni­
ously as to assure the hearer of some­
thing more than trispieiit practice by
the singers, of an entire unison of soul
and sentiment—
Icli weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten
Dass Ich so traurig bin.
There was no note of undue sadness
in the voices of the singers. For them
the song was the fair expression of a
dream—a song of "sweet melancholy.”
In the far distance of the future they
might repeat tlie wolds with more per­
sonal Import.
Today they were too
young to deeply think. To Mrs. Hol­
loway the song meant far more than to
them. As her daughter's music smote
her ears and the lover's voice joiped in
she suddenly left the window- and sat j
down again In her rocker.
She hid
her face with her hands and wept.
Ich wet« lllcht was soli es beJeuten
Dass ich so traurig bin.
The singing ceased abruptly. In a
moment there came Into the snuggery
from the adjoining parlor a young wo-
man, fair faced and with eyes Hint
were wide with love, She kneeled at
her mother’s feet and drew tlie hiding
hands from the tldn fa ace.
"Mother, mother, mother, what does
this mean?"
A young man followed. sa ilor by
dress, sailor by bearing, sailor by his
freckled, sunburned, salt beaten face,
sailor by bls big. rope hardened hands.
Bailor by his keen, open, fnrseelng eyes.
"Hello, mother! What’s the matter?”
He, too, bent over Mrs. Holloway
and, with a son’s regard, placed one
arm lovingly around her shoulders. Yet
the disengaged hand sought his sweet­
heart’s atid pressed it also in an em­
bracing desire to comfort both.
"Crying, mother? Crying this week
of all weeks In the long, long year?
Oh, mother, mother! I thought we
agreed that there were to be no tears
at my wedding'.'”
'. 1 to smile, but
Mrs. HolloVM tri«d
sobbed agiti>u^| ¡»/eitilgbt
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lier daugli-
ter’s bandiiAjy • iWtiWjbr1 l’l> t<> l'»*r
itimi re-
breast and
assurlngly. '.■',-?
“I’m uot sick, ifeilT*" she said, "and
I think l am very foolish indeed, be­
cause I don’t know why I am crying.
It’s the storm, I suppose.”
“Not so much of a gale, mother. and
—Jack’s not at sea. at any rate."
The mother laughed through
tears.
"Ob. of course,” she said, “if Jack’s
here and safe it does not mutter how
the wind may blow; but, still, my dear,
there are many boats at sea ami many
Jacks. I suppose I am nervous, but I
seem to se»* the boats tonight rocking
aud tumbling and tlie men In them
cold aud hungry ami wet. driving on
the shore perhaps, and. oh. perhaps not
really for death. Oh. Katie, dear, I
shall lie so glad when you’re married,
aud then I shall give up this Inn nml
get far, far away from tlie sound of
the sea.”
Kate Holloway looked at Jack Beau­
mont with a worried raising of the
eyebrows, and Jack begun to whistle
softly tlie “Lorelei.”
"It's very true,” Mrs. Holloway said
and rose with a smile, drying her eyes.
"I don't know what lias happened to
make me so sad. ami you will both for­
give me, won’t yon?
I shan't do it
again.”
"Hear little mother!" cried Katie.
"Good old mother!” cried Jack. "It's
because all your summer boarders have
flown, and you feel the house lonely
and empty. But, really, you must re­
member your promise—no tears for
the wedding next week; only love and
laughing and kisses, and then we’ll
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all live together wherever you like so
long as you are within reach when I
»■ome sailing home to meet my sweet­
heart and the best little mother In the
world.”
They grasped the gray haired, tender
facetl woman between them, laughing
ami embracing her, and drew her into
the parlor.
"1 lance!"
cried
Kate
Holloway,
“.lack, make her dance. It Is the one
perfis t cure for the doldrums. Go on;
I shall play.”
So. in spite of her protests, the land-
lady of the Inn was gently guided
about the room on the arm of her big
young son-in-law to be.
Outside the storm howled again, and
the spray and sand dashed against the
glass, and the rain plunged on the roof.
Nenrer and nearer to the shore came
the fisher's boat, nearer ami nearer to
death, and one man hung to a rope
praying, and one man grasped the
mast cursing. The cozy lights of tlie
inn. streaming bravely through the
red window curtains, shone out on the
beach.
A loud knock sounded on the outer
door. but the dancers were too busy
to notice it. The piano played merrily
on Io the Meeonipniilmeut of Kate's
laugh and Jack Beaumont's whistle.
Mrs. Holloway, carried away by the
cheerful sympathy of the young peo­
ple. was laughing herself ami forget­
ting the sad foreboilings of the even­
ing. Tlie side servant left after the de­
parture of the summer boarders open­
ed the door, and tin? wind and the
rain dashed at once so furiously into
tlie hall that she was borne inside and
flattened against the wall by the swing
of tlie door.
"Eli, Mr. Guest, Mr. Guest!” she
screeched.
“Shut to the door.
It's
more nor I can manage.
What a
night!”
The burly, white haired visitor turned,
panting. The wet shone on Ills hair
and tlie rough blue cloth of his coat
and upon his oilskin hat. He was too
liyeatliless to answer at once, but put
his shoulder to the door and with the
aid of the woman closed out the an­
gry storm.
"Is Mrs. Holloway at home?" he
asked with the immense roar of a gale
hoarsened voice.
"To be sure she’s at home,” said
(lie servant, fretful at the invasion of
the storm. “It’s where sensible people
would be on such a night ’stead of
visiting.”
< till Ted Guest solemnly removed his
overcoat ami hat. shook his shaggy
voice, with great respect he hanileil
Mrs. Holloway to a chair and plantetl
himself by the stove, with bls legs
apa it.
"Mrs. Holloway,” be roared. "I said
I'd keep the aplMilntment. and I have.
I've com»* for the answer."
Mrs. Holloway, her lingers nervously
toying with her handkerchief, looked
up and smilingly shook her bead, while
u blush so delicately rosy that It would
have graced her daughter's cheek aud
neck stole over her gently wrinkled
face. Ted Guest shook his linger at
her In protestation and cried In as gen­
tle n voice as he could command:
"Don't say II again, ma’am! Roily,
my dear, don't! It's tlie fourth y»*ar
ami the fourth time I've asked. Think
a moment. There's Kilte, nearly as
till»* a woman as her mother. There’s
Jack, as good and rising a sailor as
ever took the bridge on a liner. They
love you. but they love each other bet-
1» r. They’re going otf to I k * maiTled,
and you'll In* alone. Next week's their
marriage, and a merry Christmas week
'twill be for them. But you'll be left
In tin* Inn alone, and you can't bear It.
Look here, you've known me since I
was boy and you were girl, and I nev­
er loved any other girl.
Don't stay
alone.
Com»* to my house lie my
wife. Wliat should stop you?”
Mrs. Holloway looked at him with
tears In her eyes.
"You know, Ted, you know why it
can never be. 1 must wait, be It ever
so long."
“Wait?" Ted Guest roared as savage­
ly as he could. "Havi* you not waited
long enough? Twenty years since lie
left you. He's dead."
"He was alive ten years ago"—
“And in prison.”
“Hush! And live years ago he was
alive”—
"Only to beg from you. If lie were
still alive. Dolly, you would luive heard
from him. He would have been writ­
ing for assistance. Dolly?"
"I can’t, Ted; I can’t. He is Katie's
father, and he is my husband still.”
"Any woman but you would have
got a divorce”—
“And dragged mv name ami Katie's
down? Think of Jack Beaumont. If
1 did what you wished and lie earn»*
home?
Wliat disgrace for him and
Katie!"
“It's not right; It’s not natural. It's
n shame. You have no right
“Don't, please, say any more, old
friend. There can bi* only one an
swer.”
"But if I know he Is dead? I have
been hunting for him and can And no
trace. If 1 bring you proof that lie
can never trouble yon again, that he is
really dead—then. Dolly, woman?”
She was crying softly.
From the
piano came the music and the voices:
Ich wets« nicht wa. aoll ea beileuten.
"Dolly, dear?”
"1 don’t know. Ted. I feel so strange
tonight, and 1 ought to be happy with
Kate and Jack so happy.”
"If I bring you news, then"—
"Oh. Ted. Ted-I—suppose so.”
Tlie old captaiu stooped and kissed
her hand to seal the compact, but at
once jumped erect again. listening.
Above the shriek of the wind, above
the dash of rain, above the roar of
the surf, came a cry, a loud, long
shriek for help from the ocean. Cap­
tain Guest's trained ear distinguished
It from all the other calls of Hie tem­
pest stricken night. He darted to till*
parlor door and burst upon the lovers.
"A boat ashore!” he roared. “Jack
Beaumont, come along! Some one Is
shouting for assistance.”
Hi* tore through the hall like a bliz­
zard. followed by the young officer. In
a second they were out in tlie storm
and down on the bench, where nlready
some fishermen had gathered. A smack
was being battered on tlie shore. Two
men were washed out of it and into the
surf. They were east almost at Ted
Guest’s feet, bruised and bloody and
senseless. The skipper was nt once on
his knees beside them. For an instant
he bent over one man, him who had
cursed as lie clung to the mast, and
then the captain got up white and
shaking.
“Is he alive?” cried Jack.
“Yes,” said oil! Ted Guest.
“God
help her. He Is alive.”
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The storm had passed.
Tlie wiuil
had been driven again to its unseen
haunts beyond the seas. A long, lazy,
7Vit H ind and jaindas/ud lurlounln into sun smitten swell had taken the place
the hall in the door wan opened.
of the snowcapped waves.
The sea
head till the rain scattered from It In beat heavily but wearily on tlie land,
a shower, wagged his linger at the with a tired approach and a spiritless
break. Here and there along the bench
woman aud roared:
"Don’t be cross, Maggie, or I'll were still signs of Hie tempest's rage.
kiss you!
I'm a going In to see the An old tree near the inti was uprooted,
the roof of an old sawmill lind been
missis.”
Bight in front of the
"Tlie wind's bad enough without you carried a wav
Inn, but a tew yards below low watet
roaring to beat It." Maggie protested,
mark, the wreck of tlie sloop lay stilly.
and the sailorman made his way with
Ils ribs already half burled by tlie wash
tlie certain step of a habitue to the
of the sand. Th»* mast to which the
door of tlie parlor
He opened the
mini had clung lay up on the beach,(
loor with a "good evening, ma'am!”
heaved there by tin* high tide. Nothing
which bore down the crash of the
had come ashore from the hulk Io show
pill tio.
w ho the men Were.
"Captain Guest!” cried at the same
Mrs. Holloway bad felt a little In
time Mrs. Holloway and Kale and
illgnnnt.
Ilers was an assured posi­
Jack Beaumont.
"Out on such a
tion in the township where now she
night! Are you afraid of no weather
had kept tlie Inn for four years.
It
at all. then?”
seemed to her that the proper place to
"Not tonight, ma'am, nor any night
offer as shelter to the unfortunate mar
when I’ve got an appointment. How
Iuers would have been that place at
do you do. Kate, my dear?
You're
whose doors Providence had east I hem.
nigh as pretty looking as your mother
nt your age. Jack, you rascal, what "Besides," she admonished Ted Guest,
have you lieen doing to give her them "there Is no place where they could la
rosy cheeks?
Mrs. Holloway, you ve really comfortable and well attended to
tio place along the
been dunelug. And it's done you good. except the inn
I h ' iic I i for miles and miles."
You look iis young as ever.”
"It is so." said Katie. “1 don't know
"Have a turn with mother. Oh. do.
Captain Guest!” Kate cried, dapping What the fisher folk about will think of
us.
Fancy them being carried away
her Im lids.
"Go It, skipper, do! I’ve done my from our very door! And tin y ctin't be
comfortable til Dave f’opeland's. .luck,
sluin'." Jack crltsl.
"They used force and compelled me, you should have insisted on bringing
captain.” said Mrs. Holloway. "That Is them In hero. 1 feel ashamed. It was
lay excuse for being so foolish at my worse than Inhospitable; It was really
and truly nncliristliinllke."
age.”
"I I did think." said Jack Bean
"Bless 'em." said Ted Guest, beam­
iqHilogetlcally, “but
Captain
ing on tlie youngsters. “Leave 'em to niont
their music, ma'am. May I sit in the Guest was In charge, you know."
“They were not,” sold old Ted quiet­
snuggery witli you?”
For a moment the landlady of the ly. “the class of men to bring into such
Inn hesitated with some embarrass­ a house as this Is."
"What, almost drowned, bruised, near
ment. Then she smiled on the kindly
faced old graybeard and assented. death!”
"They'll bo all right nt Copeland's,"
The two lovers were at the piano
■ gain. As the older folks left the room said the captain, with some Irritation.
"Well, well," Mrs Holloway -miled.
their voices took up the Interrupted
"The captain acted for the best and to
song:
save us worry; but. do volt know, flint
Ich welss nicht wan *>11 es hedeuten
Bans i< h so (rating bin.
night of the storm I knew something
Mrs. Holloway shivered again.
was going to h>ip|>en. I felt somebody
was out there on the sen neisiing help.
“Pretty, but sail," said the sailor
Ilian, and the gale at the moment beat I could not keep away from the win­
so tumultuously on tin* Inn as to mo­ dow. It seemed as If some one wlm
mentarily drown even his trumpet bud a claim on me was in danger. I
WONDERFl'I. BROEt.'K
really have not quite got over that
her» mis feeling yet.”
t'apjuln Guest got up from his chair
and walked abruptly nwa.i from the THE ORIGINAL SPOTLESS TOWN IS
group.
His lips were quivering; bls
IN NORTHERN HOLLAND.
brown cheeks were paled; Ids hands
were elinelied.
He was wondering
, Amine«. nn.l • ■ rllllnu«*, Tbal
with a feeling of horror what strange
4rv AWsululel, ••■Infnl Per»«de III.
isiwer that man must have bad over
Whul« l*4»e«—Hole, W Lh'b Hie lu-
his old sweetheart that he eoulil so
|.,l,l,,ul. Mil«» lll».er»e.
speak to her spirit across miles of roar­
ing ocean and through the volumes of
Far up In northern Holland amoug
night's blackness. The black liearteil the dikes ami canals of the little king
devil! Could lie still maintain a hold dom Iles Broeek. tin* original Spotless
on her? The faithful skipper's face
Town. The paliugs of the femes of
grew white. In his timi* lie had seen
Broeek are sky blue. The streets are
many strange things seen many men,
immeasurably
better than
Dolly's paved with shining bricks of man.» col
worthless husband, suddenly kill«*»!. ora. The houses are rose colored,
He stood for a tint»* motionless, with black, gray, purple, light blue or t>ale
dry lips and frightened eyes.
Jack green. The doors are painted and gild
Beaumont win speaking to Katie ed. For hours you may not see a soul
about a morning walk.
in the streets or at the windows. The
"We can call and see those poor
streets and houses, bridges, windows
wrecked men." said Katie.
and barns show a neatness and a bril
"Will yon take me with you?" Mrs.
Holloway asked. "We might be aide liancy that are absolutely painful. At
to do something more for them than every step a new effect Is disclosed, a
new scene is beheld, as If painted upon
Mrs. Copeland call.”
the drop curtain of a stage. Every­
Ted Guest turned sharply.
"No, no." he erli'il. his big voice thing is minute, compact, painted,
spotless and clean. In the houses of
shaking.
"No? Why not?”
Broeek for cleaning purpose« you will
"I've been to see them. They're a find big brooms, little brooms, tooth­
little delirious yet. mid they're two bail brushes. nquu fortls, whiting for the
lots. I think. Don't go, Katie. Don't wimlow panes, rouge for tlie forks aud
go. Mrs. Holloway at least not for a spoons, coal dust for the copper, emery
day or two. .Im k. it would nut be a for th«* iron utensils, brick powder for
seiii' to take Kall»* to.”
the floors and even small splinter« of
"Captain Guest,” cried Kate em­ wood with which to pick out the tiny
phatically. "if mother mid I get a bail bits of straw in tin* cracks between the
mime in this community for Inhos­ bricks. Here are some of the rules of
pitality
mid
all
uneharitableness, this wonderful town:
please remember that you an* alone to
Citizens mini leave their shoes at th«
door when entering a house.
blame.”
Before or after sunset no one Is allowed
•Im k Beaumont took fright. Within to smoke excepting with a pipe having a
a week of liis wedding, In* would not cover, ho dial ths ««lies will not be scat­
tered upon tlie street.
have Ills sweetheart disturbed.
Any one crossing the village on horse­
"But Guest is right,” cried he. "Walt
back must gel out of the saddle amt lead
n day or two. Kate, until they are the horee.
A cuspidor shall be kept by the front
mended a bit."
door of each house, where It may be ac­
Guest sighed with relief. The lovers cessible
from tlie window.
went away lor their walk.
He was
It Is forbidden to cross tlie village In a
carriage or to drive animals through tlie
alone with Mrs. Holloway.
"Ted." said she. looking at him w ith streets.
In addition to these established rules
Iler quiet, deepening eyes, “you me
worried about these men. Is then* any 1t Is the custom for every citizen who
particular reason you did not bring sees a leaf or a bit of straw blown be­
fore his Imus«* by the wind to pick It
them to the Inn?”
up am! throw It into the canal. The
(TO HE COX TINNED. )
people go 5< hi paces out of tlie village
The Fitiry I n m pl I k Ii t e r.
to dust their shoes. Dozens of boys
MTection often hispirvM Ingenuity, are paid to blow the dust from be­
jii a life of Joseph Severn tbe narra­ tween th»* bricks in the streets four
tive of the artist's rare of the poet times an hour. In certain houses the
Keats in his Last illness includcH a guests are carried over the threshold
¡j-icri ul inrhlvni. Severn, worn out so as not to soil the pavements. At
with watching «and tireless service, one time tlie mania for cleaning In
Broeek reached such a point that the
would sometimes drop asleep and aJ
low Hie candle to go out, thus leaving housewives of the village neglected
the sick man in darkness, which he even their religious duties for scrub­
dreaded. Realizing that this was Ha­ bing and washing. The village pastor,
lle to orcin*. Severn hit upon a happy after trying every sort of persuasion,
device to keep the light still burning. preached a long seruioii, in which be
One evening lie fastened a thread from declared that every Dutchwoman who
the bottom of the eandle already light­ lia»l faithfully fulfilled her duties to­
ed to the wick at the top of another ward God hi Ibis world would find lu
tilt* next a house packed full of furni­
unliglited one set ready near by.
.
Not being sure the experiment would ture mid stored witli the most various
succeed. he had not mentioned It. and and precious articles of use ami orna­
when later on he fell napping as the ment, which, not being distracted by
tirst eandlo was burning low the in­ other occupation«, she would be able
valid was too considerate to awake to brush, wash and polish for all eter­
Th»* promise of thia sublime
Idin, but lay patiently awaiting the ex­ nity.
tinction of the fluttering flame. Sud­ recompense and the thought of this
denly, Just as he expected gloom and extreme happiness tille<l the women
Idaeknwss. tin* connecting thread too with such fervor am! piety that for
tine and distant for him to see caught months thereafter the pastor bad no
tire, and a tiny spark began to run cause for complaint.
Around every house in Broeek are
along it. Then he waked the sleeping
nurse with an rxclamathm of Joyful buckets, benches, rakes, hoes aud
stakes, all colored red, blue, white or
surprise.
’ Severn! Severn!” he cried. “Here’s yellow. The brilliancy anil variety of
n little fairy lamplighter actually lit colors aud the cleanliness, brightness
and miniature pomp of tlie place are
tip the other candle!”
But It was only the good fairy of wonderful. At the windows there are
many sickrooms loving forethought— embroidered curtains, with rose col­
ored ribbons. The blades, bands aud
that had lighted the candle.
nails of the gayly palnt«*d windmills
sblne like silver.
The houses are
Cent li i*l
lit lini lilt ittf.
brightly varnish»*»! and nurrouiid»*d
Persons wlm are disposed to grumble with red and white railings mid feuces.
at tin* length of time required tu tinlHh The panes of glass In the windows are
public buildings should take heart bordered by many lines of different
from the example of tlie Cathedral of hues. The trunks of all the trees are
St. Peter. In Cologne. That structure painti*»! gray from root to branch.
was
years in building. It was be­ Across the streams are many little
gun in 1248 anil was pronounced com­ wooden bridges, each tin Inted as white
pleted in l.ssn. The great Cathedral as snow. Th»* gutters are ornamented
of Milan was begun in 1380 and was with a aort of woisten festoon, per­
not completed until 1805, 411) years lat­ forated like laee.
The pointe»! fa­
er. ltosterniel castle, In Cornwall, took cades are surmounted with a small
ninety years to build, ami one third weathercock, a little lance or some­
of that time was employed in excavat­ thing resembling a bunch of flowers.
ing for the foundation. The late Lord Nearly every house has two doors,
Bute was engaged for over twenty one in front and one behind, the last
years In building Ills great palace In for everyday entrance uml exit aud
th»* isle of Bute, and bls successor Is tlie former opened only ou great occa­
still at work on It. The palace of the sions, such as births, deaths mid mar­
Dukes of Atholl. In Scotland, has been riages.
building since 1830, and the work is
The gardens are as peculiar as the
still going on. In the eases of the oth­ houses.
The paths are hardly wide
er buildings mentioned, however, tlie enough to walk iu.
One could put
money for their construction did not Ills arm around the flowerbeds. The
»■ollie entirely out of the pockets of the dainty arbors would barely hold two
taxpayers, which, after all. makes a persons sitting close together. The lit­
considerable ditl'erenee iis to the mat: tle myrtle hedges would scarcely reach
ter of looking nt it.
to the knees of a four-year old child.
Between tlie arbors and the flower
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beds run little canals which seem made
In a diet for diabetic patients milk Is to float paper boats. They are crossed
only occasionally allowed, yet eggs, by miniature wooden bridges, with
cream, buttermilk and all kinds of colored pillars and parapets.
There
cheese may be taken freely.
Tart are fsinds Hie size of a bath, which
fruits are permitted, and peaches and are almost concealed by lllliputian
strawberries may* be eaten with cream, boats tied with red cords to blue
but without sugar. The sweet fruits — stakes, tiny staircases and miniature
pears, plums, grapes, apples, bananas, kitchen gardens. Everything could be
etc. me forbidden.
Koumiss, coffee measured with the hand, crossed at a
with cream, but no sugar, and cereal leap, demolished by a blow.
More­
coffee are the drinks permitted, tea be­ over, there are trees cut in the shape
ing excluded and no wines or liquors of fans, plumes anil disks, with their
except claret. Bilim* or other acid va­ trunks colored white and blue.
At
rieties. All vegetables containing sug­ every step one discovers a new effect,
ar or standi are forbidden, which a fresh combination of lines, a novel
leaves cauliflower, lettuce, string beans, caprice, some new absurdity.
spinach, cucumbers, greens, young on­
The rooms are very tiny and resem­
ions. etc., to lit* eaten. Olives are not ble so many bazaars. There are porce­
forbidden.
A moderate meat »llet Is lain figures oil the cupboard, Chinese
recommended, particularly the fatty cups and sugar liowls on and uuder
purls, and all kinds of fish are al the tables, plates fastened on tbe
lowed.
walls, docks, ostrich eggs, shells,
vases, plates, glasses, placed In every
Ilnllnn Ring«,
corner and concealed iu every nook,
Bings of Italian workmanship are cupboards full of hundreds of trifles
remarkably beautiful. Venice partic­ and ornaments without name, a crowd­
ularly excelled in tills all. In the Lon
ing disorder and utter confusion of
desborougb collection is a tine speci­ colors. -Public Opinion.
men. The four claws of th»* outer ylng
Knilnil From the Maine Plate«
ill open work support Hie setting of a
III former days It whs usual for a
sharply pointed pyramidal diamond,
such ns was tlmn coveted for writing couple koh ted together to eat from one
on glass. The shank bears a fanciful trencher, more purtlcularly If the re­
resemblnneo to n serpent swallowing lations between them were of an In­
timate nature or, «gain. If It were the
a bird, of which only tin* claws eon
master nnd mistress of the establish­
Heeling tlie face reniqlli In sight.
It was with a similar ring Italelgli ment. Walpole relate» that so late as
wrote the words on a window pane, the middle of the eighteenth century
“Fain would I rise but that I fear to the old Duke and Duchess of Hatnll
full," to which Queen Eliza bet li add»*»l, ton occupied tlM> dais at the bead of
"if thy heart fail thee, do not rise at the room and preserved the traditional
all," an implied eiieuurageiuent which manner by sharing tbe same plate. It
led him on to fortune.
was a token of attachment and tender
recollection vf unreturnable youth.
PrufeealuuMl Eury,
Au Italian phliusupher has amused
himself by constructlug u scale of de­
grees fur the measurement of profes­
sional envy. Tbe highest puiut in this
envy measurer is ten.
Arcbitei'ts are happily placed lowest
uu the scale.
lhev register only 1;
advocates end priests and military
men are ranged al 2, and in the as
vending scale he gives us professors
of science wnd literature, 1; Journal
ists, 5; authors,
physicians,
ae
tors and actresses, 10. The small
amount uf envy among architects Is
held to bo due to their previse, severe
ami rigid studies. The same thing up
plies to advocates.
Among tlie clergy env\ is found
umstly In preachers. In the military
career envy Is quiescent in time of
peace, but tan become mute in time
of war. Envy makes men <>f science
tnd literature lead solitary lives, difti-
dent of each other. Among ph\ siciuns
envy is still mor«* prevalent, and they
do not spatfe their colleagues, often
terming tlnnn charlatans
in the the
atrii'al world envy wa« hr> ¡is acute
form, \ unity playing a gn at part in
Its production.
(run# <■ Weather Proplieta.
The belief that two crow ire a hap­
py omen ami that they appear to warn
men from disaster Is very ancient.
Alexander the (Treat vm thus saved
in Egypt by two crows, and King
Alonzo would assuredly have perished
in 1117 had It not been for two crow’s,
one of which p«*r<-hcd on ih«* prow and
the other on the stern id’ his ship. Ro
pointing the prow’ of the royal barge
safely into port, (’rows ami rooks are
very much alike. Il is said that when
rooks desert n rookery it f orebodes the
downfall of the family' on w’liose prop
erty it is.
'¡'hey are also credited with being
good weather prognosticators. When
the weather is about to la* very had,
they stay ns near home as possible,
but when tiny foreknow that it will
be set fair they start off in the morn
Ing right away to a distance w here
they have an instinct that tin* food
they need is plentiful
Again, if the
rooks are seen venturing into tin»
streets of a town or village it is a sure
sign of an approaching snowstorm.—
All the Year Round.
dirtKt,
WfflTl
s rowNt
iuiporierN and dealer« iu
Book,
Wrltin» and
Wrapping,..
OAHD
»TOOK
STRAW A.Nt) HINDERS
main
it».
ïrt
HOARD
Fl rat 8r.
SAN F RANCIA ()
We Wei*e
Too Late.
Bright*«
Diseuse
and
Dinbctc»
Arc Positively Curetblc.
Upon bearing that Cliail«» A Newtou, tti«
yar.lniasicr of tbe St-uthern Pauhlc <'«Hupauy
ut Sacrainentt». hud u certain cu*»e of Diabuir**»,
the businos men who were iuvesligallug tlie
Pultun <’ompouuds, wrote him asking bltu to
ink'* It ; but tbev were lute, as he hud alrrutlv
beard of it. u* P’*r his letter iu 3iow»r ua
folluWb !
*• KA< K AMFN ro, July 21, IHOI.
‘•pear tMr«
Youra of tlir iHth rrrolvetj. au<! I
tin» iik \ ■ 'i for yon i Iuloi in hi i ii ii j nd. ng Un- I if a
betfs Iiirtilc'lie math* >•» J J I u ■ U. I HIP» prriliM
uuntiv t iiii'»l of Iual**t«'f to th ini-ii'«■ i id *. ;tn.i | no«
rnjo) good liealtli oner more
I coinmeticrd taking
It March-”d. amt .lum* ’»th « a - pronounced rnird
I now enjoy my old diet In k m <1 form, but adi a lire
nioteon It a- time
by. not dialling to attempt
too much at <»nee
I w a* very bad w itli tlie »II m ' nm *
I’ll«' klliultl WH« |O|(> :ilid I BUS
I could
acart'e'v walk. I he plivhfctam» helped me »ome, but
»aid there w a» no l ure I then Icard of ami wrni
to treating with the Fulton ( oinpoumt. and only
look tliiec botflr- u lieu I commenced to fee' letter
ami ilicn kept on Improving until I whs restore»! to
hralt h.'
• 1 know of «noth» ' »•»»<• of |>hC>«*t»*» »n engineer
on tlie roa»i «ho
i| the dl-t-a
foi four veat-
IIe «ent to I uckoii to die
When I waa getting
Iwttcr I »ent foi liim to come to Sacramento to go
on tlie same treatment <»n hi» rcturii hr believed
no medicine won I»! cure IHm. but I prevailed upuu
him to try it
I hi- wan In Mav. lie I m now »e
mucli Impio'-tl that lie I- on i 1» engine worklhtf
every
II - ■ a »- al»t> two <•««<••» of Itiighl»
1)1 . qs.
i vvtuin I to'd of It. I hope aomt
tondi' i" '
'i tbi» iiH'di' nr and bulhl »auitar
liiiiis all over tlie < 'iitiiiy for the treatment ot the«
dreadful illxH ••
liii-tliig I have not. »alii lu«.
much, S'oura,
"C hai *. A. N kw ion ,
" \ ardmantet. S. I*. Co Saeto."
M -licul works agree that Bright’s Disease
anil Diabetes are incurable, but H7 p»*r cent air
positively te< »i\«1 Ing uudet the r’ulton Cow
pounds
(Common forms of kidney coinpiuiut
ami rheumatism offer but short resistance.;
Priee *| for II m - IL ight’s Ilisease ami Il la) fui
th«' !»!.*!•••( '<• ( impound John .1 Pulton < 'o., 4A
Mi»nlj oni'" v St , Sail ' ram isco, sole corn
potimhis
l-’rre tests maili* for patients. De
Hcriptix' pamphlet untiled free
APHORISMS.
You liccr lift lip a life without being
yourself lilteil up. Euicmou.
To eiise another's heartache is to for­
Book* hih I ll«»ok m li«*H «*R.
“Low bookshelves,” says a furniture get oue s ow n. -Abraham Llucolu.
It is ever true tluit he who doea noth­
dealer, who is a lover of books as well,
ing for ottiers does nothing for himself.
•’have an origin in a reason besides the
—»loet lie.
caprice of fashion. Heat is injurious
"l'ls fur better to love und be |s»or
to the binding of choice books, drying
than lie ricli with an empty heart.-
out the natural oil of the leather and
Lewis Morris.
making them warp ami get out of
shape. Most rooms are very warm In
God doesn't care for «hat 11 ou the
the upper parts, and these live nml six
outside; lie cares for what is Inside. -
foot hookcasi's ar<* a m*<*essity rather
lb v. M. Babcock.
than a notion,
(’old is as hard on
Fruitless is sorro«- for liavitig done
books ns overheating, nnd an atmos­ an.iss it’ It issue uot lu u resolution to
phere that is loo damp or too dry also do so u*i more. Bishop Home.
injures them.
Ihe sun pouring in di
Tin* next time you are discouraged
rectly on the shelves fades the biml
■Just try encouraging some one else, uuit
ings. You can have a cheerful, sunny
see if it will not cileer you. J. It. Mil
library and yet keep the volumes out
ler.
of the sun’s full power.”
Sin is never at a stay. If we do uot
retreat from It. we shall advance lu it.
Hreitkiiiu I p “i’liHttrr.**
mid Hie farther on we go the more We
The famous painter i'useli had a
have to come back. Barrow.
great contempt for “(•hatter.” One aft­
Kind looks, kind words, kind acts
ernoon a party of friends paid a visit
and «arm hand slmkes - these are sec­
to his studio, mid after a few moments
ondary means of grace when men are
spent in looking at the pictures they
111 trouble mid are lighting their unseen
seated themselves and proceeded to in
battles
Dr. .lolin Hall.
dulge in a long and purposeless talk.
At last, in one of the slight pauses,
l-’loMera of the ( rii n berry.
Fuseli said eHi’iiestly. “I had pork for
One of the daintieHt of wild flowers
dinner today.*’
of .lune is the hlosNom of thill time
“Why, my dear Mr. Fuseli,” ex
lioiiored concomitant of roast turkey,
claimed one of the st:irlled group, the < i :tnbeiT.v. While, however, every­
“wliat an extremely odd remark!’’
body knows the berry, few are ac­
“Is II?” said the painter ingenuously. quainted with tlie flower, for the peat
“Why, Isn’t It as Interesting and im­ bogs where it blows in tlie choice tel-
portant as anything that has been said
lonship of tlie stately pitcher plant
for the last hour?”
nnd the gohlm club and of many u
I’« ri ìm meliI m r > l i "ni lers.
On <>iihi*r «I<1<> of U h - i iiiiiiiioiih i lluni
ln*r of olir parlilitni*:it liuiibc tlu*ri* is a
«llHtliict line nlong Itif tloor. ami ani
nicnibur «vlio, wln*n speli king. si epa
Olllsille III»' lille oli Ili* siile is liallle Io
lie ealletl lo oriler.
Tlicse linea are
Kiqqioneil lo Ile seleni iti.- froiitiers. ami
Die lientrnl Zone lietween is lieyontl t Ile
lengtli of a «word tliriiHl. ami. altlioiigli
niembera no longer wear sivorila, ex-
»•ept Hlo«e who are selt**'leil Io move
ami seeond addresses to tlie llironi* on
ei*l'tiiin oeeaaioiiH. thè old preenntion
stili lingers oli. Westllllllster Gazetfe.
I nhH|»|>>
1 »nn««ti*r.
Kind Geullenum Wli.v are you try­
ing, nty little lad?
Urchin III...... oh!
Billy Wells hit
tn»*, an’ feytlier hit me because I let
Billy hit iimt . an’ Billy Wells hit me
again beiause I told feytlier, an’ no«
feyther’ll bl*, me again beeatise Billy
(Exit kind gentleman.) Chums.
At Any Kate lie Aroused Dliiciinsioa.
Lucille—Ctolly Is such an uninterest
lug person.
Helen oh. I don't kno«. 'Ie gave
rise to an animated diseussioti hist
night as to whether a person can be
considered absentminded when bls
mind Is neither here lior elsewhere.
Taw# and Cbuntry.
Hi. Mitecnre«,
Beeler You are the last man I should
have expectial to find opposing tlie
pensioning of government . employees
no longer able to work.
Heeler When a mini gets so helpless
that he can't do what little work there
Is In a government Job. be ought to be
taken mil and shot
London Tit Bits.
No l.lfe There.
I.lttli* Dot Wlint's nil this talk 'bout
Mars? Does folks live there?
Little Johnny — They used to live
there, but they is all dead long ago.
"How do you know?"
"I heard papa say th*»' names of all
the seas an' lakes an' islands ini'
tilings Is from Hie dead languages."
Scent I onaolnllwn.
The Pessimist— The longer I live In
the world tbe worse It seems to get.
The Optimist Oh, well, don't let a
little thing like that worry you. Per­
haps It will be better after you get out
».f It. Chicago News.
Ill* 'IrHstirt1 Tnkrn.
Aggie He told uu* I wuz de only
gurl he ever loved.
Katie—Well when a feller talks like
dat give him de gisigtsi eyes reversed.
He's nutUln' but a born dlplermat!—
Pr-*.
wire orclild are quite remote from tbe
bcjtfcii paths of travel. Tlie cranberry
plant is a small, slender, somewhat
trailing shrub, with the neatest of
(‘vergreon iettves, from amid which a
few threadlike stalks lift their nodding
flowers. When fully expanded, the
pink lobes of each corolla are curled
back like a lily's, and from the heart
of I hem the compressed stamens pro
triide in the shape of a spear point or
beak.
Tlie imaginative may see iu
tltis long beaked little blossom a re­
semblance to a tiny crane’s head,
whence some bard pressed etymologist
inis thought to derive the word cran­
berry that is, crane-berry.- “(’ountry
Life In America.”
<ln«M*n I’llxnbeth*« Amulet.
Queen Elizabeth dm lug her last ill­
ness wore ground her neck a charm
made of gold which find been be­
queathed her by an oil! woman In
VVnles. «Im declared tluit so long a«
I lie queen «ore It she would never be
III. I'lie amulet, as was generally the
ease, proved of no avail, and Eliza­
beth. not withstanding her faith iu the
eluiriu, not only siekeneil. but died.
During tlie plague In London people
wore otuuletH Io keep off Hie dread de­
stroyer. Amulets of arsenic were worn
near tin* heart. Quills of quicksilver
«ere liung around the neck, aud also
tin* powder of toads.
The
« h»»-»i♦ in I «tied
Professor.
At n session of tlie German reichstag
nn absenttnindeil member, Herr Wlch-
niaiin. created no little amusemeut.
II*' was calliug the roll, and upon
reai liing his own mime lie paused for a
response. Naturally none came. Then
lie called the name more loudly, waited
ii few second« anil roared It out at tbe
top of his vole«*. The laughter of hl«
colleagues finally arouse»! him to a
sense of the ludicrousness of his act,
nml 11" jollied In the general hilarity.
Itussli.il Poll«*«* ltr«ul«llous.
Gue of the regulations of the Rus­
sia n police refers to tbe censorship of
price lists of goods, notes of invltatlou
to parties nnd personal visiting card»;
also for the eetisorsliip of seals, rub­
ber stamps and business curds of indi­
viduals or corporations.
Another or­
der legiilates the sale of snap, starch,
tiHithbrusbcs ami Insect powder, and
another control» the printing ou tbe
paper used In making cigarettes.
A P etromr I Reflection.
“1 see villain In your face,” said a
Judge to a prisoner.
"May it please you honor." said ths
latter, “that Is a personal reflection.'*
benevolence Is to love all nieu;
knowledge, to know all men.—Coutu
clue.