up tor a lunatic, tilie knows i
S 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 'you
not a penny to my name.”
I
nave
ALMANAC VAGARIES.
THE COLLECTOR WHO KNE'V |
Exploding « Theory,
At tb« beginning of the nineteenth
century tbe French Academy of Bel
ernes offered to give a prize to the tirst
person who would solve tbe following
problem: If you take a vase full of
water aud put a stone or any similar
body lu It, the water will How over.
If. however, you put into it a fish the
volume of which is equal to tli.it of tbe
stone, it will not How over. Explain
this phenomenon
Learned essays on tlie subject poured
In from all quarters, but tlie problem
was not satisfactorily solved In any
of them, and consequently the prize
was not awarded.
In the following year tile same ques
tlon was again propounded, and for
five years answers coiitlimed to pour
lu to the academy Then it suddenly
occurred to one of the academicians
that, after all. the problem might be
Incapable of solution, and lie deter
mined to make a test for himself.
Filling a vase witli water lie put
a stone luto It and saw tliat (lie water
flowed over. Then lie took out the
stone, tilled the vase again with water
and put Into it a fish, tlie volume of
which was tbe same as that of tlie
stone, and saw, to his surprise, that
the water again flowed over.
He told tlie academy of Ills disi
ery and tbe result was tliat tlie o
of a prize was at once withdrawn.
They bud come to an agreement, not
Ing Tut* Self <
withstanding. They meant to wait a AN INTERESTING COLLECTION IN
, year before speakiug out. until Malcla
"The trouble with
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.
should be uiueteeu and quite old
you waut things, lint
••• üy •••
enough to marry. But when man pro-
lug about ’em. You
Noted
Meu
Wk.
Are
Credited
With
M&rth&. McCulloch-
| poses to the wrong woman—wroug in
and
carry home a lot
lie I UK the First Aliunuae Maker*.
the eyes of his pastors and masters—
WilllCKllll
European collector
Yearly Almanacs the Huge since
fate commonly disposes to brlus ou an
bouse room, aud w hen you see a really
tlie Sixteenth t'eutury.
* early crisis. Kate's Instrument In thia
good thlug you don't know it. or you
88
case was Miss Sarah Ashliel. She came
One of tlie most curious collections won't pay a price for it unless some
I visiting Tauty Tom and saw aud con nt the library of congress is that of dealer makes you. You see. you don't
Copyright,
1902) by
quered that good woman.
These publications, which know; that's what's tlie matter; how
u8
A\arth*
A^cCuiloch-William*
88 Sarah was stout and black eyed and I almanacs.
as advertising mediums are left at the can you? Nobody in America wanted
ruddy, comfortably rich withal, to say
often to be at once thrown care antiques liefore tlie Centennial. If
you'd lived here twenty years, like me.
oo OO OO OO OO OO OO nothing of expectations from a bache door,
oo oo OO OO OO oo OO lor unde. Once more Miss Luclndy- lessly into tlie wastebasket, have a you'd learn something, you'd find out
striking
and
veuerable
history.
that collecting isn’t a tiling of money,
//W DON’T mind just plain, ordina court her. It was Just the other way Tom felt distinctly grateful to Provi
It is still contended by many author
•• ■ ry stinginess," Miss Martlcia with Miss Martlcia. Bhe was siugle dence. Here was the wife John needed, ities tliat tlie almanac of 1457 was tbe but knowing."
We had been walking in Venice
■ said. “I never saw the good solely because she had uot beeu able brought ready to bis baud. He would tirst specimen of printing, and It has
of it, but it may sometimes be to uiake up her mlud and heart among not have to stir to do his courting. Sa been variously credited to Gutenberg, down a narrow calle while the collect
worth while. What 1 hate Is little, twenty beaux, the best the county af rah was to stay a month, lu the course 1 Schaeffer and I’tister of Bamberg. Dr. or was siieaking. "Look at that old
mean stinginess, like Lucindy-Toni forded. Somehow noue of them bad of it there was opportunity for the most Faustus, celebrated In legend, w hose brass scale." be resumed, pointing to a
^Va rfleld's. I do believe that woman quite measured up to her father, the decorously anient wooing. Throughout strange story has beeu immortalized fish stall in the little outdoor market
would try to rise from tlie dead If she standard in her mind of all things mas a fortnight Miss Luclndy-Tom waited by Marlowe and Goethe, was the ac on which we had just emerged.
remembered In her cottiu that she had culine, but she had dealt with them so hopefully for the wooing to begin. credited author of aluiamics containing "There's a gem. not very old. but of
paid for half a cent's worth of some kindly they were all still her frleuds — Then she took the bit In her teeth.
astrological signs (retained at the pres the finest seventeenth century Venetian
"John is so desperately shy, 1 shall
her lovers even In a friendly, open
thing she hadn't got.
ent day) and necromantic secrets. work. If you now that In a New York
Marcia, a softened copy of Miss Mar fashion, although they bad wives and have to speak to you for him. Sarah,” | "Poor Richard's Almanac,” the pro dealer's, ull cleaned up, you'd give up 1
she said one morning at the breakfast duction of Benjamin Franklin, Is well a good deni for It; lint you'd 'a' passed |
tlcia, even to the name, Hushed and children of their own.
So tar she regretted sending none of table, beaming upon tlie pair. Sarah known as a treasury of homely wit it by a dozen times if I hadn't spoken
turned away her head. Miss Martiela
them about his business. She had the blushed and bridled, but smiled amia nnd wisdom, fine of the greatest of about it. See that old Junk stand over I
ran ou:
“I saw her do the meanest little farm; she had her sweet supremacy. bly. John got Uery red, but since he modern German authors, Auerbach, there? 1 never pass a tiling like that.
thing and the llttlest mean thing. She Most of all, she bad Marcia. Marcia was a gentleman tried to save tlie situ flrst won Ids way to popular esteem You can never tell what you may pick |
hired old Black Ben one spring to make had come to her a child In arms or ation.
by using the almanac as a vehicle for up if you only know."
1
“That Is mighty kind of you, Tanty,” his talents.
We lmd scarcely reached the stand
a garden for her. You know, he works phaned by the fever plague which bad
he
said
as
airily
as
he
could.
“
I
didn
’
t
desolated
the
city
tn
which
Robert
Ew
wh<*i
tlie
collector
thrust
out
Ills
hand
for 50 cents a day and found. He got
Ileyloiuontanus. a famous German
M ini» laved Con title nee.
done about 4 o'clock, and l.ucludy-Tom ing had made a home and had hoped think you knew, but I see there is no l mathematician, under the patronage of with tlie swiftness of a hawk darting
An Irishman once applied for u Jolt
made him take up her beans and plant to make a name. He had always hated use trying to fool you. I am so glad to , Matthias t'orvlnus, king of Hungary, on its prey, and swooped upou a little on board a certain ship.
’em over again three times just to farming, so bls father had given him have Miss Sarah the very tirst to con published a series of almanacs from jewel box.
“Well," said the captain, “where are
"Carnelian! Russian, 1 should say, your recommendations?”
make out the full day's work. She money In band, leaving to Martlcia the gratulate me on my engagement. She 1175 to 1506, and yearly almanacs be
has
seen
Marcia
—
she
knows
how
lucky
land.
The
money
was
somehow
pretty
from
the
Ural
mountains.
It's
not
of
pretended to believe he had put ’em
came an established custom in the six
"Shure, an' 1 haven't enny, sur."
first two deep aud afterward too shal well swallowed up, but Marcia had I am."
teenth century. Henry 111. of France great value, but it's a pretty little
“Can't take you, then; got u German
"Marcia!
”
low. I felt real sorry for the poor old never known the feeling of dependence.
in 1579 enacted that the almanac tiling, if It was cleaned up. It's mine, here with fine recommendations; have
Tauty Tom almost shrieked tlm should not be made the Instrument of anyway.” To tlie keeper of the stall: to give the Job to him."
She was so entirely first lu Miss Marti-
fellow”—
“Quanto?"
"1 dare say you gave him something cla’s heurt It was perfectly natural she name. John nodded aud murmured:
partisan politics by tlie Introduction of
Pat begged so hard, however, tliat
"It Is a little unlucky, our fancying prophecies against parties and indi
The Venetian slowly uncoiled liim- the captain finally agreed to take him
extra,” Marcia Interrupted, smiling should be first in everything else.
each
other.
Miss
Martlcia
is
certain
to
self
and
came
down
from
the
church
It was that, perhaps, which tirst In
faintly. Miss Martiela nodded. ”1 had
viduals In the state.
and the German both on a trial trip,
to,” she said. “I couldn't let him think clined her heart to John Warfield. Miss object”—
The tirst almanac In the modern steps, w here he bad been sleeping.
the best man to have the permanent
"Is she?” Tanty Tom Interrupted Shape appeared In England in 1073. It
“Does the signore want the pretty Job.
all white folks were so mean. About . Luclndy-Tom reminded him about once
grimly.
"Walt
and
see.
Martlcia
Ew
trifle?
Tlie
signore
knows
its
value
a
day
that
needs
must
he
save
to
Luclndy-Tom, though. Strikes me the
was compiled by Maurice Wheeler,
They were well out at sea when a
reason she never misses a Sunday at thrive, since he had nothing of his own Ing never did a sensible tiling in Iter canon of Christchurch. Oxford, aud better than I, and he'll lie generous?” storm arosi one day while l’at and tlie
I
"1'11 give you a lira for it. It isn’t German were scrubbing the deck. A
church Is she thinks she's paid for part and could look for nothing beyond what life. It Is most too late now for her to wns printed In that city. The sale was
so great tliat tlie booksellers of London worth it, but one mustn't be hard with big wave came along and swept tlie
of all the sermons aud 'twould be wick she could give him—and that was pre begin.”
John waited to hear no more. In an bought tlie copyright in order to mo the poor.”
cious little. In the face of that she
ed waste not to go and hear ’em."
German overboard with bis bueket.
“I bad hoped I should get five!”
“Aunty Marfy! Aunty Marfy! You gave him everything heart could wish hour he had asked Miss Martlcia nopolize its subsequent saleB. The
Pat immediately picked up his
plumply
for
her
niece's
hand.
She
had
“
Well,
I'll
make
it
two.
”
"Almanac Royal” of Paris, 1097, con
are wicked and uncharitable,” Marcia save and except liberty to enjoy the
and started after the captain,
"It is tlie signore’s.”
said; then coaxingly: "Let’s talk about gifts. He bad, for example, the finest looked at him more sternly titan lie had tained notices of pastimes, court recep
lie found below.
“There, you see!” exultingly chuckled
parties. I can hardly think of anything watch In the county, but it stayed believed eyes so kind could look and tion days, lairs and markets, to w hich
“Well, Put. what's tlie matter now '.-
the
collector.
“
That's
what
it
is
to
said:
safely
locked
In
a
bureau
drawer,
aud
were
added
soon
afterward
the
gen
else since my beautiful dress and my
the captahi inquired.
know. An exquisite carnelian Russian
"I must speak with Marcia, and I eulogy of tlie reigning house, etc.
new white slippers came. They are he carried about a wheezy open faced
“Faith, sur, ye know tliat German
In England James 1. granted a mo jewel casket for 40 cents! You'd never what had such foine ricommindations?”
just what I wanted, oh, so badly, but silver affair he was ashamed to look at shan't do that until after I think over
everything."
nopoly of tlie trade to the universities have tliouglit of looking among a lot
did not ask for because I doubted if we In company.
"Y ob ; what of him?”
It was the same with his gun, his
She had taken a day and night to and tlie Stationers’ company, subject of rusty old iron for a thing like that,
could afford them.”
“Begorra, sur, an' lie's gone off with
would
you
?"
clothes,
his
saddle
and
bridle
—
even
his
think
—
a
night
nearly
sleepless.
She
to tlie censorship of the archbishop of
“1 say people can afford whatever
one of your buckets.”
While speaking he held tile box with
they’ve got the money to pay for with books. Miss Luclndy-Tom had provide was just, but uot Judicial. Slie wanted j Canterbury and tlie bishop of London.
■
miser's
clutch.
out leavlug anybody else unpaid,” ed a fine case for them. If by chance nothing so much as to insure Marcia's Tlie universities accepted an annuity
nilHeult Dentistry.
"May 1 see it, please?”
Miss Martiela said. "My fattier said he laid one down for a minute outside happiness. Marcia could not lie deeply ' from their colleagues, and resigned tbe
The nawab of Rauipur, whose do-
He reluctantly handed it to me ns main is about tioo miles to tlie north
so too. I bad Just a fitting out for my it she darted at the offending volume in love. She was too well used to John active exercise of their privilege into
tirst big party. The dollar never went and whisked It In place, sighing tliat be for that. She was so young, too, and tlie hands of the Stationers. Under though fearing 1 might make a sud west of Calcutta, came down from his
In bls pocket that was too big to be could be so careless. It was even worse other beaux so plenty. She might take their supervision were conducted the den dash down the calle with bis treas home to call on Dr, Smith, says a Lon
spent for anything he wauted or 1 if lie thrust the book in hastily, upside her pick of the county. Decidedly it popular almanacs known as "Moore’s” ure.
don paper, and brought 150 people witli
“l’hew!” said I contemptuously, him to see about Ills mother's teeth.
wauted. He believed, as I believe. In down or the least bit askew. What would lie wicked to let her waste her anil "Partridge's,” tlie latter of which
putting Ills money In the bank of hap Miss Luclndy-Tom bated the very self am’ her youth upon John Warfleld. was humorously attacked by Swift. handing the box back to him. “It's not
She wanted n set of false teeth, and
piness. Lucludy-Tom thinks she has worst of all wus to see things which Of course John would not think of "Poor lloldn's Almanac,” published carnelian ut ull. It's glass, nothing but because Englishwomen laid two sets
glass.
”
tbe muhurimu must have two Nets also.
got thousands to my nothing, but 1 had cost money abused. Patching aud leaving his aunt. Equally of course from 1(152 to 1828, may have furnished
"Glass!” drawing a magnifier from The nawab of Rumpur Is a Moham
wouldn’t swap with her any day In the darnlug were rites with her. joyous if Miss Martlcia would not think of let a model, at least In title, for Franklin’s
bis waistcoat pocket and mutely ex medan; so of course the mother could
austere. There was a color of truth In ting Marcia lie subject to Miss Lucin- "Poor Itlchard.”
year.”
Popular superstitltlons and the ex amining tbe * purchase. “I’m—I'm— uot show her face.
"Never mind about her,” Marcia Miss Martlcla's saying. “Lucludy-Tom ry-Tom’s restrictions.
She had led up to tlie subject witli travagances of astrology found room afraid it is!” he said sheepishly.
Likewise ou that account Dr. Smith
coaxed. Miss Martiela wheeled aud Warfield thinks It 1 b a sin to wear out
“Of course It is."
artless
art as she sut by tier snug tire In these almanacs, the Stutloners, like
anything
until
It
is
at
least
six
years
bad to go to Rampur to do tlie work.
caught her niece by the shoulders.
"I don’t know,” sadly. “Yes, It Is Two thousand miles to make two sets
side toward 11 o'clock lu tlie morning. a genuine corporation or "trust” of
"I have got to mind about her.” she behind the fashion.”
Notwithstanding she loved her neph Logs still burned in tlie sitting room, the time, having no personality of glass! You see, it’s so dirty. Oh, well, of false teeth! It cost the nawab 4,000
said, “when you sent John Warfield,
we nil make mistakes ut times. Do rupees.
her nephew, to ask me If he might have ew with a force and concentrated pas the furnace to tlie contrary notwith their own. and exhibiting no special
sion possible only to natures such us standing. What with tlie fire, tlie thick bias except for what would sell, as you want it?" disgust taking the place
The old woman lay buck with her
you.”
of sadness. "You can have it for a face covered, and tlie deutist worked
“I—I hope you don't object,” Marcia hers, she had not loved her brother carpets, the easy, well worn chairs, tlie was particularly proved in 1624, when
overmuch. It bad been a distinct relief flowers in the sunny south looking win they Issued a set of predictions In one quarter.”
at lier mouth through a hole in n sheet.
said, getting crimson.
"Well, I guess it's worth a quarter.”
"I’ve got nothing to say against him.” to her when he chose to live away from dows, the room was a cheery place, a almanac and bitterly contradicted I think my eyes must have snapped.
A Question of Notes.
Miss Martiela said. "So far as I know, the old home. His wife bad been pret fit exponent of Its cheery mistress. She them in another.
Tlie famous "Moore's Almanac” pur “Yes."
“Yea, sir,” said the man with a
he’s a pretty fair sort of man, but ty and extravagant, an offeuse out- glanced about It and sat up very
And that is how an almost unique frayed collar, “that land Is worth $1,-
ported to li<‘ edited by Francis Moore,
straight as she answered Marcia:
what's bred In the bone Is bound to
“Go there Indeed! 1 should think not! physician. Tlie original Francis Moore example of the cinque cento came into 800 a foot, and only a year ago 1 could
come out. By the time be’B forty he
But that ought to settle tlie matter for died In 1724, but tbe publication was my collection of Venetian glass. New have liouglit It for a Bong.”
may be the same as his Aunt Lucindy-
good
and all. Ewing Is a better name still ¡sued as if under his supervision, York Post.
"But you couldn't slug, eh?" cackled
Tom. You’re all I’ve got in the world.
than
Warfleld anywhere you speak it. and In 1775 a vigorous rival arose in
the funny man.
I won’t ever agree to your marrying
Honesty In Perfection.
If you have any pride in your blood, another almanac claiming to be the
The man with tlie frayed collar eyed
where you might come to be grudged
To find honesty in its full perfection
any love for me, you'll tell John War genuine Francis Moore. A great law it is said tliat one must go to tlie liim distantly and haughtily and re
everything, even the air you breathed.”
suit
followed,
which
was
decided
fleld you will marry Into no family
“I don't want to marry Miss Lucln-
Welsh colliers of the Ognmre valley, plied In cold, cutting tones:
where you are not only welcome, but against tlie monopoly of the Station who travel by a workmen's truln which
“Oh, I could sing, but I couldn't get
dy-Torn,” Marcia said, pouting. Her
ers' company. A bill to renew and
felt to do It credit.”
tbe right notea!”
aunt laughed grimly. "Anybody that
runs
from
Maesteg
to
Abergwynfi
ev
"I can’t do tliat, aunty,” Marcia said, legalize tlie privilege was brought in ery morning and returns in tlie even
And the funny man looked as crushed
did would be a curiosity," she said, i
growing pale. “You—you have brought tin* house of commons by Lord North Ing. There are heavy penalties for as an overripe strawberry at the bot
Marcia pretended to pout more than
in
1779,
but
Lord
Erskine,
the
great
me up always to speak the truth, ni»l I
ever, though a smile hovered In her
taking pipes and matches down the tom of the basket.—Exchange.
am going to marry John as soon as you , barrister, most brilliantly exposed the pit, so when the train reaches its des-
eyes. She dropped them and half turn
absurdity and even indecency of the
will let me.”
Must Have Thouahl Iler (ltd.
filiation in tbe morning every smoker
ed away as she said:
“Then you'll wait forever,” Miss | publication, and the bill was defeated. lays Ids pipe on tlie seat, and wheu be
Miss Clara—I declare 1 was never so
“I don’t see what we are to do. Aunt
Although
the
privilege
was
thus
de
Martlcia said, her eyes snapping. "I
returns in the evening it Is exactly lusulted in my life. Oh. how 1 hate
Marfy. We thought you would be our
am ashamed of you, 1 am. It almost stroyed, tlie Stutloners purchased tbelr where he left It. During the day tlie him!
friend and let us live with you. Miss
makes me bate my own blood, and I rival and continued to bold the Held couches are shunted to a siding, the
Miss Angle—Whom?
Luclndy-Tom swears John shall never
have been so proud of It always. John w ith n but slightly Improved style of doors are not locked, but there is no
Miss Clara—That young snip of a
take me there.”
“Z must speak with Marcia."
Warfleld too good for yon. Indeed! I'm publication until 1828, when tbe Soci single instance of a pipe having been Dasbaway.
It was her trump card. John and
ety
For
the
Diffusion
of
Useful
Knowl
Miss Angle—What has be done?
beraeif bad agreed merrily that all right to Miss Lucindy-Tom's economic going right over there and tell Luclmly- edge published tlie "British Almanac” stolen,— London A ns wers.
Miss Clara—Why, lie asked me this
which was needed to overcome Inevita instincts. Then when her baby came Tom what I think of such imperti
nnd demolished their predecessors,
afternoon if I thought there was much
A Fit Subject.
ble opposition wus to let each of the she needs must cal! it John, when every nence!”
She flung out of tbe house in spite of with tlie able assistance of tbe daily
Mrs. De Jarr—Is there an Idiot asy difference between tlie people ten years
aunts know that the other opposed Warfield for 100 years bad bad Thomas
press, which so vigorously assailed the
ago and now. Just think ten years!
tbelr marriage. The two spinsters had somewhere in bls name. Miss Luclndy- Marcia's pleadings and marched down Stationers’ publication that that com lum near here?
Mr. De Jarr—I believe so.
been on terms of intimate enmity for . Tom said things when the boy, aged tbe lawn with her nose In the air. At pany was constrained to follow the
Fa.Ill Adjusted.
“Do they take people on their own
at least fifteen years. Their bouses ’ two, was sent to her keeping. Busi the gate she stopped short. Miss Lu new example In tlie "Englishman's Al
“I have come to the city with my
recommendation?"
faced each other, standing each about ness was taking bls father abroad, and clndy-Tom was just outside her gate
manac.”
“My stars! How should I know ? son, who is about to enter tlie law
100 yards back from a broad beaten his mother would not let slip so tine an and evidently bound for tbe Ewing
Tlie uniform price for an English al
house, since she was on foot and It was
school. Tbe first thing is to find a
Why?
country road. The road was the bound opportunity for travel.
manac
for
many
years
was
a
penny,
John was a pretty fellow, bold with tbe only dwelling within walking
“Oh, nothing, only today I got hold boarding place. Do you know auy
ary between the two farms, which
but the monopoly increased tlie price,
of a package of my old love letters."— place that you can recommend?'’
stretched lu fiat fertile readies beyond the boldness bred of knowing only love. range.
“H-m-in! Coming to see me?” Miss and the imposition of tbe stamp taxes New York Weekly.
“Well, no; not near tlie law school.
and behind the houses. Originally the In the teeth of her rebellion against
after
Queen
Anne's
time
raised
it
still
But I know a good place near the med
bouses bad been nearly alike—white, him he crept close into the heart of Luclndy-Tom called, making as though more. In 1781 “Moore's Almanac” was
ical school.”
A Friend In Need.
with green blinds, small front porches 1 "Tanty Tom.” She gave him up with »he would re-enter lier own portal.
a mighty wrenching of her teuderest
Wederly—Did I understand you to
“Indeed. Then I'll have him study
"Yes. But you were coming to see ninepence, two being for the stamp.
and tall red outside chimneys.
In 179(1 it rose to Is. 4d. and In 1816 to say that Enpeck Is a relative of yours? medicine.”— Lustige Blatter.
That was in the days of the fathers. affections, and when be came back to me. Come on," Miss Martlcia said, 2s. 3d.
Singleton—You did. He’s my step
The daughters bad expressed differ her five years later orphaned she felt flinging wide open her gate and mo
An almanac was established by
Hard to Satisfy.
ences in temperament largely by means that even an erratic Providence Is tioning the other woman to cross the Isaiah Thomas in Worcester, Mass., friend by marriage.
She—You will love me always, won't
Wederly—Stepfriend! Why, how's
of paint. Now the Warfield house was sometimes just. She loved bltn Indeed road.
which gained nnd established an ex
you. dear?
“No. We had better say our say
that?
a violent yellowish drab with vermll better than herself. He came next to
traordinary repute in 1780 from the
Singleton—He stepped in and eloped
He—Always, darling.
Ion trimmings, the Ewing house slate I her accumulations. They were to her here. Tlie big road belongs to every happy accident that, as It was being set
She (petulantly)—Ob—
body,” Miss Luclndy-Tom said grimly.
with tlie girl I was engaged to.—Ex
blue, picked out on cornices aud win the central fact of life.
up.
one
of
the
boys
asked
what
should
She bore him one grudge, but was
He—What In tlie world is the mat
“I'm not hunting a quarrel,” Miss
change.
dow facings with deep buff. The War-
be placed against the 13tb of July.
ter?
field chimneys remained Intact, tbougli just enough to feel that it was based Martiela said, her nose higher than Mr. Thomas, in careless haste, an
Him Locust.
She-Why on earth don't you say
smoke rarely came from more than one on something wholly apart from his ever.
swered: “Anything! Anything!" Tlie
“O'Brien slz be hos bln carryin' the twice as long as always?
“Nor I,” said Miss Luclndy-Tom,
of them. The Ewing bouse boasted a control. He could not have been born
lad,
literally
obedient,
set
up
"Rain,
furnace and bad bow windows in most a girl even If he bad chosen. But If with a sniff. "I Just want to tell you hail and snow.” The diligent readers same stick iver since lie hos bin on
the force.”
Ills Fi lends.
of the old chimney spaces. Miss Mar- only be had been so born then Miss my nephew John"—
were surprised, but when the day came
"How long lios thot bln?”
Jinks—1 tell you what It is. there is
"And I Just want to tell you. my tlie prediction was fulfilled—It really
ticla had flowers In them all winter Luclndy-Tom would have had tbe su
"Sivintane years."
nothing like having lots of friends.
long—flowers which she gave away preme satisfaction of showing that niece Marcia"— Miss Martlcia broke did rain, hail and snow on tbe 13tb
“Bed ail. ut must be a sivintane year
Winks—I presume not.
foolish
Martiela
Ewing
bow
a
girl
In
—
with an open baud, although she might
of that July, and the fortune of the locust!” Philadelphia Record.
Jinks—No, slrree. As quick as I lose
—"has got Just two hundred dollars almanac was made.
have sold them for good money in ought to tie raised. John was five
a job my friends go all round hunting
town. The giving was Ewing all over. years older than Marcia. Hence they to his name, and that's Christmas and
Tlie "Almanac de Gotha” I b the best
A Mu.lcal Accompaniment.
u new place for me so ns to save me
It fretted Miss Luclndy-Tom beyond became fixtures In their respective birthday money I made him save,” known of tlie German publications.
"Don't
you
think
Will
has
a
musical
the trouble of borrowing money from
measure. She wns almost tempted to homesteads at nearly the same time. Miss Lucludy-Tom went on. “I came Whlttnker's is the standard English laugh?"
them.
pull down her chimneys, be comfort The difference in age made them com to say, too, he never will have another publication of the kind, while in this
“Indeed 1 do! I notice lie always
able and raise flowers, too, but the panionable. John was big enough to penny of mine If be throws himself country several of the large newspa laughs when you try to slug.”- Denver
I.onss No Lonsee.
shame of an open Imitation wns too be shy of girls as big. but this tiny away on that doll baby you've been pers issue ninitial nlmanaes. The stray News.
Once upou a time there was a man
thing
In
the
white
frocks,
with
hair
dressing
up
for
him
nil
these
years.
”
great.
production, however, with its old as
who thought he wanted tbe earth.
"won't be allowed to throw herself trological and magical symbols of
Still there had beeu constant passing like spun sunshine, who clung confid
Nearly every person you meet is hulk Then he had a vision and he dreamed
ingly
to
his
Huger
and
could
barely
away on a Warfleld," Miss Martiela Faust, must ever possess nil Interest
back and forth. Each houseinistress
felt that she could not afford to remain | lisp his name, was nearly as good fun spluttered oil. "She can marry whom for tbe curious who are versed in tbe ing for “encouragement,” but the most lie did own the earth. He thought tlie
successful men have found it neces assessor came around, nnd he woke up
Ignorant of what the other wns doing as tbe puppy lie sighed for, but wns she pleases or not marry If she pleases. history of almanacs. — Washington sary to encourage themselves,—Atclil-
with a groan. He has never wante.
forbidden
to
keep,
and
even
better
than
Site'll have nil that is mine. It ain't Times.
They had run in upon each other at all
Bon GloiM.
tbe earth since.—Hudson Register.
hours aim twice in each year nail form the big dolls he saw In tbe shop win so very much, but enough to keep her
An I nil-rest I n k Teacher.
ally entertained each other—once at dows and coveted In spite of being a a lad.v ns long as she lives."
A lienealoalcnl Tre«.
Quite Itomantlc.
dinner, once at tea. Outsiders bidden boy.
The dominie was trying to explain
(TO BK CONTINI'KI i . )
Britemnn Wbnt do you know about
Marcia had remained a sort of glori
Miss Gaygirl Did you bh . v you have
tlie Darwinian theory to ills class when
to these feasts said that Miss War
your genealogical tree?
Medicinal I ses of Salt.
lie observed tliat they were not paying lived in New Mexico all your life?
field gave you good, ordinary victuals fied doll to him until she became sud
Groucher-Genealogical tree t>e bang
Salt Is one of tlie greatest of natural proper attention. "Boys,” be said,
Mrs. Hansom—Yes.
on the finest sort of china. Miss Ewing denly and mysteriously a woman—the
Miss G.—And tieen married five ed! The only ancestral timber I know
tblugs that were simply ravishing in one woman in all the world. It took remedies and antiseptics. A weak so "when I aui trying to explain to you
about is the alsiriginal forest, where,
good, plain, everyday ware. She had him six months to muster courage to lution an even teaspooiiful in ii glass the peculiarities of the monkey I wish times?
according to Darwin, my remote pro
of
water,
cold
or
hot
is
excellent
for
Mrs.
H.
—
Yes.
tell
her
so.
Throughout
them
he
had
you would look right at me.”
china, of course, but she never made a
genitors used to swing by their tails.
indigestion.
A
solution
of
about
the
Miss
G.
—
Ever
divorced?
been
outwardly
quite
the
same.
Even
parade of it and least of all before Miss
Los Angeles Herald.
Leave It out.
Mrs. H.—No; husbands all shot.
nt the laBt there was no approach to same strength will often relieve a cold
Luclndy-Tom.
There Is but one art to omit. I
Miss G. (gushingly)- How romantic!
Miss Luclndy-Tom had beeu forbid sentiment. He had said, "Marcia, I in the head If snuffed up through the
A man Tfty yenrs old lina walked
would ask no other knowledge. A
ding from her youth upward, so much shall have to marry you to keep you nose.
12.909 miles, eaten nine nnd a half
8evere
pains
In
the
bowels
are
often
man
who
knew
how
to
omit
would
out
of
mischief.
”
Marcia
bad
laughed
Paper possessing the transparency of tons of meat and fish and eggs and
so thut lu spite of tielug also handsome
aud well dowered no mail bad ever back at him: "Well, say nothing about relieved by tbe application of a bag of make an "Iliad” of a dally paper.—R glass Is made lu Paris from kelp aud vegetables, and drunk 7,000 gullons of
L. Stevenson
summoned up the courage requisite toJ it yet If you do, Tanty Tom will lock hot salt.
other seaweed*
fluid.
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Bright’s
Disease
Is Positively Curable.
Interview with the ptonerr manufacturer, N.
" Spaulding president of R m » Spaulding Saw
('t-inpuny, Suu FrunciNUu
Sf We are told h iid mberof your family wh
cured of a ou» that the doctors pronoun, ed
Hright'a Uiaewae, although It la believed to be
tucurable ?
A.—That is no rect.
Q Uuu’t you think the facts ought to ba
known *
A
\ es H it u ill help anyone else you may
Buy that U cure rt
effected
Q
b>u s;i , pli\Niciuns bud diagnosed the
ease as Bright\ |)|M-,jm. y
A. Several had They toltl us tlie eonJltiou
was critical, when uiv ¡»rothei, who li.id beeu
helped by the Fulton Compound, tuid us of it,
and I scut tor it
M —>Wus it long before a change wus uoted ?
A —In a few weeks the linprovenieul wus
m.iHied The sleep wns belter and I ere was
ugruduul return (o health, although it was a
year bvf re we considered the cure full a d per
maueut
Q Know of any other cases •
A Nutnbersor them I’m sure I told scores
alsiut it.
Q - -Were there any failures *
A.—I know of non«- where it was taken iu
season.
Q t'au you recall any Indiv'dual cures?
A Several I told an i’ingl sh uc>|uaiutauce
about it. lie
to mend aud ultimately re
covered, uud look a supply oi the < \*m|H>und
w ith him on his returu to bdigiaud I cousider
it a cure for Blight s Disease when taken it)
time It ought uot to be permitted to die wild
11 s aped d I scoy crer, and I am glad to see busi
Hess men are going to perpetuait it
Me.licai works agree that Bright’s Disease
Hud Dialietes are incurable, but s; per cent are
|H»sitive|\ recovering under th.’ Fulton tom
pounds ((’ommon forms of kidney complaint
and rheumatism offer but short ’ resistance.)
Price, fl for the Bright's Disease and fl W) for
the Diabetic Compound John j , Fulton Co,
I'AI Moiitgomer St., San Frauciseo, sole com
pounders Fre< tests made for patieuts. De
scriptive pamphlet mailed free.
A Lucky Meeting.
Some yearn ago a young London no-
Heitor, in order to win the girl of his
choice, carried out a task which all
but those of unusual courage would
have shirked. The lady rejected his
attentions on the ground that she
would only marry the man who under
took to find her brother, who bad left
home some years previously, and re
store him to her mother.
As the runaway bud been last heard
of in a South Amerieun copper mine,
tlie solicitor had no Important clews
to aid him In bis work. Nevertheless,
pocketing a photograph, he gave up
*hls business and set out only to re
turn to England iu despair when two
years were over and he had come to
the end of his resources without suc
cess. Hut Just as he was leaving a
London terminus a man passed him in
the street who bore a small r<* n-
bl n<e to the photograph, and he iu
quired his name. Judge of his aston
ishment when the stranger replied that
he was the individual in question, and
the reunion of the family was followed
shortly afterward by th«* admittance
of the solicitor as a fully «¡unlitied
member.
Frvakn of Lnn*ciif*K<*.
A peculiar kind of blundering known
as "folk etymology” Is responsible for
some of tbe queerest freaks of lan
guage. Ail easy example will make
tills clear, says Harper's Magazine.
Our American word “carryall" for a
kind of vehicle Is not a compound of
“curry" and "all." but n slight distor
tion of the French “carriole," a dimin
utive ear. The change wns made lu
obedience to tlie universal tendency’ to
assimilate tlie unknown to tlie known,
to make words mean something by as
sociating them with others which they
resemble in sound, often there I h no
etymological relation lietween the
words associated, as when sparrow
grass is made out of asparagus. This
particular corruption was once in such
good colloquial use that Walker, the
lexicographer, wrote, "Bparrowgruss Is
so general tliat asparagus has an air
of stiffness and pedantry.”
A Precedent K n I h hllith«»<1.
A Methodist clergyman in the upper
portion of tlie city encountered n Celt
one recent rainy Bunday standing close
to tlie wall of tbe ehurcli in an effort
to utilize the coping ns a shield from
tlie storm.
"Come inside," said tlie clergyman
cheerily. “You'll be out of the wet,
mid yon can have a sent while you're
waiting for it to clear.”
"No. thank .Vez," said tlie Celt em
phatically. ‘‘(»1'11 not go intn th' house
uv me Inlmles!”
"Well. Hint's rather harsh,” answered
the clergyman. "When our Lord was
on earth, did lie not go among liis ene
mies?"
“Yis; lie did that.” nssentisl the Celt
with growing warmth, "mid yez didn’t
do n t'Ing to him, ayther!” Philadel
phia Times.
A Story of Chori«*« Rende.
('liarles Matthews w as fond of telling
a story of Charles Reade when tile cur
tain fell nt tlie old Queen's theater in
London on a pronounced failure called
"A White Lie.” There was no shadow
of n call for tlie author. The curtain
divided tlie audience from tlie author,
who stood oil tlie stage slinking ilia fist
ut (lie invisible foe, still smiling bland
ly and in mellifluous accents sayiug:
“Infernal idiots! When ahull 1 teach
you to respect Charles Reade?"- Lon
don Telegraph.
Tliiie F«»r B iim I neNN.
I’a Has thut young man who has
been calling on you rather frequently
of late any steady occupation?
Daughter Oh, yes. pa. lie's n trav
eling man.
I’a Indeed! Well, please tell him
when he culls again I'd like to have
him attend strictly to business when
tlie clock strikes 19. Kiehmond Dis
patch.
Tor M ua I c D m .
In systematic zoology the place ac-
corded to tlie musk ox is intermediate
lietween those of tlie sheep (ovia) and
tlie ox (Isisi. and for its special aecom-
modntlon a new genus lias been ere-
ntisl. "ovllsis." Most writer« notice its
resemblance in mmiy ways to the buf
falo or bison, and it undoubtedly has
much utHuity with this species.