I cannot leave her father to go after Friend*. CHOICE MISCELLANY There is Keeping nothing so very difficult in NEW SHORT STORIES FACTS IN FEW LINES her.’ making friends; the trouble is to keep « « « « (■eriiiMit)'» KcoBiimic M•• < ii «»«I *. On«* miner is killed for every 1,060,- Hruator Chandler'* Klee Mena, '1'r m I ii ilk. Shepherd l>Ofa. “Wind a time 1 had tracing that Tilt* Countess Aiida von Kroeliow them. Pleasing manners and a taking Senator Frye delights to take guests 000 tons of coal raised. way will always win admirers, but a The native* of Mexico seem to have pisir girl. 1 heard of her here and writes from Germany to the Christian Nicaragua's coffee crop this year Will lasting friendship must be built upon with him up to his eamp on the Range- m original way of truln'ng shepherd there, and finally realized she bad Register: “Germans And Unit It pays to u tirmer foundation than a transitory ley lakes, once upon a time be bad be worth about $3,000,000. dogs. A pup Is taken from Its mother Englund’s imports of meat for 1902 'Tis passing strange to Polly w by so dropped out of sight ami that I must encourage peasants to free their tields smile, an hour of high spirits or even Senator Chandler with him. One after­ as soou after birth as possible, the noon, when the cook wanted to go to breed of the dog beiug immaterial. many mothers are blind to tlie interests hunt in the lowest depths of degrada­ of stones. The property rises in value, great physical beauty. Of course It is town. Mr. Chandler uff«*red to prepare to date have decreased 6 per cent. Over 720 tous of flowers were export­ The .voting of a sheep or goat la taken of their daughters to the extent that tion to timi her. Down into the delis taxing value. The stones, thrown into a pleasure to feel that one is favored the dinner. He wrote out an elabo- ed from the Scilly isles last season. heaps by the roadside, are purchased by some radically beautiful woman, away, and the pup is substituted. they do not impress upon them that It of Chinatown 1 went, searching one riite menu, commencing with chicken The number of pieces of separately After the tlrst few days the pup is is not tlie proper Hung to accept invi­ and the other. The keepers of these by the district road repairing commis­ but unless there be genuine congenial­ soup. Having a faint idea that rice assessed real estate In New York la sion. Poor men, who otherwise would ity between the two concerned the time never fed except Just before the flock places were suspicious at tlrst, but when was used in making chicken soup, but tations to lunch or dine from married goes to pasture in the morning and I assured them I was not a missionary have to be supported by the alms will come when passive loveliness will having no idea at all of the amount 476,610 this year. men when their wives are not included houses, are hired to break these stones cease to I k * attractive. To retain friend ­ Few of the people In St. Pierre were just after the sheep are brought in at in the invitation. It is no excuse for and was only hunting a girl to deliver uiid then are trained to the work of re­ ship one must be continually on the that was necessary, Mr. Chandler emp­ pure black, and most of them showed bight. tlie message from a dying fattier, they pairing the roadbed. The money to watch and not let the familiarity that tied the entire tin can of rice into the only a trace of colored blood. As soon as he can walk he goes out tlie daughter to assure her mother that made no further objection. I bad pay the men is made by auctioneering comes from a lengthy knowledge of soup, lu a little while he was forced An Austrian lrou trust was formed with the flock and stays with it ail she has known the gentleman for a to ball* out the soup kettle am! till two day. Whenever he begins to antic! long time, and that he is honorable and searched nearly all the dens and was oil' to tlie highest bidder the crop of the other's life breed the contempt that stewpans with boiled rice. Presently recently, and Hungarian and Bosnia Arms have been asked to join. pate supper by trying to drive the flock upright, and in tact everything tiiat more than discouraged and heartsick at fruit trees that were planted on both so often follows a close Intimacy. To retain either friendship or love the kettle was spilling over again, and the awful sights, when I was stopped sides of tlie highway when It was built Th«* mosquito eggs are, it is said, lu before sundown he gets punished. can lie desired as a friend, and that she several plates were tilled. To make a After he is about a year old he takes did not hesitate to accept the invita­ by the proprietor. ‘Did you And her?' •ind which are nourisli«-«! well by the the Illusions must not be dispell<*d. Do long story short, Senator Chandler hatched in from four to seven days, ac­ ii flock out, guards It from other dogs be asked. I shook my head and tried manure that falls along th«1 road and not, because you feel sure of your was busy all afternoon balling rice out cording to the warmth of the weather. knd coyotes during the day and brings tion without consulting her. The moth­ to say something, but the wordschokt-d l< pushed nt Intervals by a road tender ground, let the commonplace enter in i>f his soup. For a rare patterned silver halfpenny It in at tlie proper time at night er passes tlie matter over lightly by me. ‘There’s a sick girl down there,' upon their roots. The purchaser of the and momipolize the everyday affairs. When the fishermen came back to (one cent) piece £10 15s. (a little over crop sees to it that his fruit is not th«* halo of sentiment hover over Let saying, “ I would not go again, but it is without supervision. All kinds of he said, pointing to a rickety flight of stolen. The road commissioners have even the prosaic affairs ofglaily life, dinner, Chandler had revised ills menu. $531 wus pa i«l recently to a London temptations can be tried on any dog all right tins time.” “My dear, good stairs that carried me down to all under­ no bother about that, and, although for. on«-«* dispelled, they can never form It began with rice, ended with rice firm. that is encountered in the hills with mother thinks I am alsiut perfect, and Buttersea (England) town councilors am! had rice without intermission. ids flock, but In spite of all he will re­ she will never find any fault with any­ ground apartment. I pushed open the tlie sale be by auction. It brings consid­ again, and In the one glimpse of the "Chandler,” said Frye, “is this a have a pingpong table in their council erable; every burgher knows bow material side of the Intimacy muy be door and there lay my once friend dy ­ main faithful to his duty, driving Ills thing I may do,” reasons thedaughter, chnmlM*r and play sets between joke?” flock to a safe distance before ventur­ and she keeps on in the even tenor of ing a horrible death. With a tlisid of much, beer,use the sales of highway utterly destroyed a relation at one "No, ” said Chandler; “ It's rice! ” speeches. fruit crops are published in the local time thought to be eternal. ing R> make the acquaintance of any her way. Fatal mistake for Isith moth­ tears she asked me wiiat brought me Joseph! Andr«‘8zswerownltzka is the ne wspa pers.” other dog. Explicit Direction*. mini«* of a young Polish girl that ar­ er and daughter, and ttieir eyes will into this den of iniquity. Theu I told A Snug Fit. Major J. B. Pond, who has an Inter­ rived in Philadelphia from Liverpool “Il libber!“ open to the fact sooner or later that her all of her father’s forgiveness and An English tourist In the highlands PevuIlHritlr* of IliiNminn Winter*. her mother ’ s prayer that she would national reputation as a pilot of lecture recently. The following Is an Incident which tells the following amusing story: He There is one curious tiling alsiut a here they have blundered, it is all Arrangements are being made to Russian winter In the latter part of wrong, and tlie easy-going mother will come home. 1 read the letter to her actually occurred at a fashionable sea- was traveling one day last summer by platform celebrities, was in Philadel­ October or the beginning of November find out to her cost that site relied on and she moaned, ‘Too late! Too late! sid<- hotel not many years ago. says rail in the north of Scotland, and at phia the other day. At the Broad Street carry on a parcel service in connection tlie weather will be as mild as It is here her daughter’s own ability to take care I must tell you all about it while I a New York correspondent of tlie one of the stations four farmers en­ station he was given some misinfor­ with the municipul trumways lu Hali­ Some guests tered the train. They were all big, mation about a train to New York, fax, England. in September. Not a sign can be seen of of herself entirely too much. The rais­ have the strength, for 1 am dying. Pittsburg Dispatch: and lie had to wait more than an hour Some timber built houses are as good an approaching change, when sudden­ You know when we went to the city on were being served by a particularly burly men and completely tilled up the now us when they were built 200 years ly, without any apparent warning, a ing of this daughter to Is- a relined and that excursion and I went to dinner competent waiter and were congratu­ seat on the one side of the compart­ for another one. “That reminds me." he said, “of an ago. said a witness In a London police light haze will be seen in the northern conscientious girl, who will be a shin­ with my friend, whom 1 trusted, 1 took lating themselves on having obtained ment. At the next station the carriage door experience 1 once had in Glasgow. I court recently. the services of such a gem, when slid sky, and in twenty-four hours the ing light at home and abroad, is a sa­ a ‘harmless’ cordial, as he called it. A ilenly, to their astonishment, the man­ opened to admit a tall, cadaverous in asked a man at the hotel what was the Southern Minnesota’s present pros­ thermometer may fall 50 degrees. The cred trust, but in many instances in short time after that father turned me ager of the hotel walked up to the dividual with about the girth of a exact time to leave It in order to catch perity is said to be due to the many change is so sudden and violent that place of receiving home training that travelers are frequently frozen to will tit her for this station in life, they out of doors and told me never to dark­ man, punched him in the ribs, as a lamp post. He endeavored to wedge a morning boat plying between Glas­ creameries, which have made it the en his home again. I came to San policemau in the circus punches the himself In between two of the farmers, gow and the next town on my Itiner­ “butter state” of the Union. death before they can gain shelter. are allowed to grow up like weeds or it lias occurred Hint farmers out like Topsy, “justgrowed.” The daugh­ Francisco and tried to get work. No clown, and promptly drew forth a tine and finding it a difficult operation he ary. A government expedition has found “ 'Well.' he replied, T canna tell ye looking after their flocks have been one wanted me. There was only one hot broiled porterhouse steak. 'I be said to one of them: “Excuse me, sir; a Mexican cactus known as “dry whis­ ters doubtless mean well at first, but just tin* time ’ twill be, but if ye'll you must move up a bit. Each seat is caught in one of these blizzards and, ky,” for the reason that the leaves, place where I found a refuge, for you man's clothes, it was found, contained missing their way home, have lost once they have made the fatal step it is must remember 1 was a green country rubber pockets contrived especially for intended to accommodate five persons, leave five minutes afore ye see the when «*uten, cause Intoxication. steamer cornin ’ 'roon the p ’ lnt ye ’ ll be their Ilves, their bodies remaining tin easy to keep on going down, down, un­ girl. That sealed my fate. Down, the transportation of food. He stole and according to act of parliament you A party of British agriculturists is der the snow until tlie following spring. til they have readied a point where the steak in the kitchen, with the in­ are only entitled to eighteen inches of In time to catch it, sir.’ "—Philadel­ visiting Berlin, there to study ma­ phia Press. The suddenness of a Dakota blizzard t hey cease to respect themselves. When down 1 went like a rocket from a dear tention of serving It and collecting space.” chines, artificial produce, etc., con­ "Aye, aye, my friend,” replied the is well known in the northwestern self-respect goes than heaven help sky. Here I am, «lying the most hor­ tin- money. Immediately after lie had trolled by th«* minister of agriculture. Getting Rid <>r * Bore. rible of deaths. I know I am lost for part of our country, but it is tardiness them. It is not easy to save them. been detected all the waiters in the farmer; “that’s a' very gold for you Evanston, Ill., has a scissors guild Billy Brady has an acquaintance personified when compared with tlie 1'hey realize that the record of their all eternity, know that 1 shall never hotel were searched thoroughly a:i«l that’s been built that way, but ye who asks more questions to the min­ composed of boys and girls, who clip rapidity with which a Russian winter meet my loved ones on the other side. those addicted to the rubber pocket cauna blame me If 1 lia'ua been con­ ute than the wisest man can auswer pictures and mottoes in their leisure lives call never be spotless and pure storm comes on. Don’t tell my mother how you found habit were promptly discharged. A struekit according to net of parlia­ In an hour. hours and send them to sick children. again. They may turn over a new leaf ment! ” me. No, even if 1 could go home 1 cry of "Rubber!” at that hotel now For using the word “archduke” on Brady was hurrying through the lob ­ bill the stain is still there. “1 would A lliiwiy ('<»ii<*ln*ioii. would not go. My father could have would create a panic. That, however, by one night Just before the curtain the stage at Vienna and thereby In­ Scot* In American History. A former Princeton man now living have trusted my daughter anywhere,” saved me at first, but he turned me out.’ is merely one of tlie tricks that wait­ fringing a police regulation Fraulein It is a noteworthy fact In American ers practice to client their employers. in Philadelphia tells of Ills only till wails the mother. That is where she Frisch, a German actress, has been She was moaning with pain and sor ­ history that of the four members of pleasant encounter with Jimmy Me erred. The mother trusted her to the fined $10. row ’ with every word. ‘ Pray for me, ’ Washington ’ s cabinet Knox of Massa ­ Cosh as an illustration of the beloved extent that she failed to invite her con­ Olive** Audience of DreNNinuker*. Enough coal was produced In the old tutor's innate kindliness. When a fidence and find out who her compan­ she whispered, and kneeling by the A characteristic story is told in con­ chusetts, the only New Englander, was United States last year to give three student, he was lounging on bi* lied ions were and what was their amuse­ «lying girl I prayed for the soul that nection with Mme. Calve. Shortly lie- a Scotch-Irishman; Alexander Ilatnil- and u half tone to every one of the ton of New York was a Scotch-French­ one afternoon, smoking. In response ment or the manner of entertaining was ««sin to return to its Maker to be fore her last visit to America the man, Thomas Jefferson was of Welsh 76.000,(MX) men, women and children to a knock on the door he called out: charming prima donna paid a visit to judged more leniently than iteoiild ever her daughter. In the country. descent, and the fourth. Edmund Ran­ "Who's there?” her dressmaker in Paris. While dis ­ have lieen on this earth. The tears » * * » dolph, claimed among his ancestors tlie Before the Siberian railway was “It is I I>r. McCosb," camo the re cussing costum« ‘ s with the head of streamed down the sick girl’s face. available a trip from London to Shang­ “I went to a French dinner with a ‘Pray; pray again. Why didn’t some­ the establishment, which is a very Scotch earls of Murray. New York ply. hai cost from $325 to $475. Now it can "You’re a liar!” answered tlie stu­ friend whom 1 iiad known for years large one, a couturlere hesitatingly en­ also furnished the first chief Justice of Is* made for from $65, third class, to dent, thinking one of ids chums was and who was a friend of the family. 1 one try to save me liefore it was too tered the apartment and approached the United States, John Jay, who was $160, tlrst class. trying to Joke with Idm. “If you weri told him I did not indulge in wines and late? Lost! Lost!' The penitent heart the singer. She came on behalf of a descendant of French Huguenots, while the second chief justice, John was broken. A convulsive shudder, The first stumped envelopes were is­ really Dr. McCosh, you'd simply say. that they were not allowed in my and the soul had returned t<> the God herself and fellow workers to humbly Rutledge, was Scotch Irish, as were sued in 1853 of the two denominations ‘It is I.’ ” crave no less a favor than a song from of 3 and (* cents, and it was not until After a second's silence the student household, so he had a ‘harmless’ little who gave it.” She was buried in the Mme. Calve, nt the same time offering also Wilson and Iredell, two of the two years later that the ten cent en­ heard retreating steps, rushed to tlie cordial prepared lor me.” That was the pauper’s Held, ami the little Salvation as an excuse for her presumption the original associate Justices; a third, velope was addtai. door and looked out to see Dr. Me liegilining of the end. “1 am lost! lost! Army lassie was her only mourner. fact that hardly any of them had ever Blair, was of Scottish origin. John Marshall, the great chief Justice, was, Cosh himself scurrying down Hie cor lost!” fairly shrieked the girl, as she To save expense the French govern­ “What shall 1 say to her mother; she had tlie opportunity of hearing her like Jefferson, of Scotch and Welsh rldor and around a corner In an eu- lay «lying in the home of a friend. She ment has set its soldiers the work of beautiful voice. Without more ado th«* deuvor to avoid recognition. Pldladel had left home and friends and sought knows I got the letter?” she asked. great singer proceeded to the work­ descent.—Charles R. Hanna's “Celt In tearing down tlie electioneering posters “Say you couldn’t find her,” I replied. room and. having assured herself that America.” piila Times. that now deface practically every oblivion to all her woes among stran­ “It will be the truth. The poor little no unauthorized intruders were pres­ boarding in France. A Bird That'* Hard tu Kill. gers, but when she stood in the portals wreck of humanity you found was not ent, sang a couple of pieces, to the un Napoleon** K.iallsl. Letter. The great fleet of sailing vessels Penguins have an extraordinary Napoleon began tlie study of English of death a friend had taken her in the pure-hearted girl who they had restrained delight of her hearers. On amount of vitality and are harder to which for more than a century has whom she had known when she was a during ids Imprisonment in St. Helena. been going out from Gloucester, Mass., known and who bad tilled the home leaving she was accorded an ovation kill than any ordinary cat. I once had His instructor was Count I.as Casos, little innocent child playing around her with joy. It would break her mother’s which for spontaneity probably ri­ occasion to kill a large bird aboard is destined to give place to steam pro­ to whom Napoleon wrote tlie only let­ Inline ami lisping her prayer at her heart and do no good.” Was I right? valed any she has yet been accordeil our ship, the Southern Cross, and, pelling fishing boats. ter lie Is known ever to have written mother's knees. Whenileutb rang down during her brilliant career. - London making use of the weapon next my Hemp is by far the most valuable In English. It is somewhat of a liter tlie curtain on this young life it found Sunday Sun. production of the Philippine archipel­ hand, I drove a large spike squarely ary curiosity and not well known, so her anxious to go and yet afraid to BRIEF REVIEW. ago, the province of Albay being the through the creature's head and tin It may be quoted here: A Pernlan Letter Address. greatest producer of it, with an output lslied the operation by nulling it fast pass through the “valley of the shad­ Count I.as Case*—Since slxt week y The addresses in Pershin upon let­ to the deck. That seemed to make the valued at nearly $5,000,000 a year. Fate and friends bad been un­ Captains of Industry. learn the English aiel y