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 <lo not any ow.”
ters which go through tin* postoffice at Job very complete, and 1 went below
Iucltatus, the famous horse of the
progress. Sixt week do fourty and two kind to her. VVliat was she to expect
When it was first annnouced that his Calcutta are often quaint ami puzzling. decks for dinner. Coming up an hour
day. If might have learn fivty word, for
Roman Emperor Caligula, was actual
on
the
o
’
her
side?
day, I could know It two thousands and
royal highness Prince Henry of Prussia An Indian paper translated one as fol later, my astonishment was prodigious “I HEAR MRS. BLANK'S HUSBAND HAS JUST ly consecrated as a priest, had a man
DIED."
» » » »
two hundred. It Is In the dictionary more
would be the guest of at a festive break lows: "If the Almighty pleases, let on beholding the penguin, head erect,
ger of pure ivory and was never given
of fourty thousand; even he could most
rose,
when
he
was
spied out and but a drink from anything but a gold pail.
tills
envelope,
having
arrived
nt
the
flippers out, waddling about, apparent
“Polly,” said a Salvation Army las fast, to which would be bidden to meet
twenty; hot much of terns. For know It
tonholed
by
this
inquisitive
friend.
or hundred and twenty week, which dr sie the other day, “I have just come him a chosen company of "captains of city of Calcutta, In the neighborhood
ly without thought of the spike, which
Tlie lake built steamship Asuncion,
"Say, Brady,” began the friend, tak
more two years.
After this you will
of Calootolah, at the counting house still remained transfixed in his cranl
agree that the study one tongue Is a from one of tlie saddest death scenes I industry, lOOin number,” says a writer, of
ing no lieed of th«* manager's evident which went to the Pacific coast a year
Sirajoodeeu ami llahdad, mer um,—C. E. Borchgrevink in Leslie's.
ago, has been sold to the Standard
great labor who It must do Into the have ever witnessed. I have been hunt it is probable that very few if any of
haste, “I bear Mrs. Blank's husband
chants, be offered to and read by the
young aged.
OU company for $95,000 and will carry
ing for weeks for an old schoolmate of the elect centurions rememtiered, if they happy light of my eyes, of virtuous
has
just
died.
Is
that
true?
”
Just the Thing,
oil in bulk between Ventura and San
mine who was once the joy of her home ever knew, the origin of that distin manners and beloved of the heart—
"So I hear,” auswered Brady, mak Francisco.
"1 don’t know what to use to raise
From Fry ing Pnn to Fire.
ami friends. She was as pure is sun guished title. The term was not wholy Meean Shaikh Inayut Ally, may his my bread," said the young wife petu ing a break to get away.
The druggists of Philadelphia have
A Loudonville man was dancing a
"Well, suy," went on the bore, block
light and tender and true. She fairly strange, having the ring of a popular life be long. Written on the tenth of lantly, “I’ve tried everything.”
organlz«*d for the incorporation of a
quadrille when he heard his liants
the
blessed
Rutnzan,
Saturday,
in
the
ing
tlie
escape,
"have
you
any
id«*a
“Judging by the samples I have
stock company, capitalized at $500,000,
seams ripping, at which he rushed in worshiped her parents, who were stern campaign phrase, perhaps suggesting year 1206 of the Hegira of our Proph
what be left her?”
to a dressing room, where his wife and matter of fact people and who to some of the elect, a more familiar ex et, and dispatched at Bearing. Having seen,” suggested her inhuman bus
“Yes; a widow,” retorted Brady, to own and manage retail drug stores.
good soul was Siam busy with needle would not countenance or forgive wick pression of questionable credit. It was without loss of time paid the postage band, “I should think a couple of jack vanishing within the box office.—New They expect to ultimately control 200
stores in the city and state.
and thread, he having first divested edness in any shape or manner if they only after taking their places at table and received the letter, you will read screws or a derrick ought to do it.” York World.
Hallstones nearly three pounds in
himself from his leg covering. Pres knew it. This daughter was the only ami opening the lieautiful little parch it, and having abstained from food or And he wondered why be got a cold
weight fell during a recent storm at
ently lie heard the rustle of skirts and one who did not feel the severity of ment-covered Issiks presented for the drink, considering it forbidden to you, supper that night.—Portland Orego
And They Didn't Get Potatoes.
realized that he was up against the their own stern bringing up. They occasion, setting forth the names and you will convey yourself to Jaunpoor, nian.
General Sir William Olplierts, recent Jessore, In Bengal. Metal veranda
horrible proposition of being discovered had a beautiful home in the southern distinctive achievements of the chosen and you will know this to be a strict
ly deceased, otherwise known as "Hell roofs were perforated, cattle maimed,
A Reply From Tennyson.
ill the ladles' dressing room, which lie
On one occasion it was publicly stat Fire Jack,” a celebrated British soldier, trees beaten down and a man killed
part of the State and sent their daugh captains of industry, that many readers injunction.”
laid entered by mistake. Appealing to
ed that Tennyson bad drawn his In was famous for his blunt language. outright by the downfall.
ills wife again, the excellent creature ter to a school in the town. She board discovered in a brief sentence «|noted
U by Some of Them Fall.
The umbrella and parasol were used
spiration
from Horace and Keats, and During a critical period in the Indian
shoved him through what she supposed ed with friends and always went home from Thomas Carlyle the source of the
Tlie city of St. Joseph, Mo., began a correspondent wrote to ask him if mutiny one of the Irish regiments by the eastern nations many centuries
to be a closet door and turned the key. every Friday night to remain until Sun newly conferred degree: “One class of the construction of an electric light this were so. “No,” he replied; “Hor complained because it bad no po before the Christian era. The oldest
“Let me back! Let me back!” he day and I frequently went home with captaius and commanders of men, re plant for municipal street lighting ace and Keats were greut masters, but tatoes. Olplierts, who was in com chinaware shows pictures of ladies and
screamed as he began pounding oil the her. There was to lie an excursion to a cognized as the beginning of a new, real twelve years ago. The system lias been not my masters.”
mand of the district, heard of the mandarins shade«! by parasols of pat
door. “I'm in the ballroom!” And he neighlMiring t<iwn one summer day and ami not imaginary aristocracy,” has al extensively added to at various inter
trouble and ordered the regiment out terns similar to those now in use.
Working Him.
wus.-Ravenna (O.) Republican.
You cannot swear at or abuse any
on parade. “Now, my men," lie shout
all of our friends were going so we con ready in some measure developed itself vals since, so that the average age of
Borroughs
—
Say, old man, can you ed as he rode in front of the lines, “I body In the Japanese language. The
the
works
is
less
than
ten
years.
Now
cluded to go, too. in the company —the captains of industry happily the
break a twenty so I can get a five dol hear you want potatoes! Is that so?” worst you can say of anybody Is that
The Succeaalon.
i was a young man who had lieen very class who above all, or at least first of experts have condemned the plant as
“Of course.” said the bachelor
obsolete, and it Is necessary to rebuild lar bill out of it?
"We do, we do!” howled the regiment lie is a “fellow,” and if you want to
attentive
to
my
friend
and
whom
she
all are wanted in this time.” It was It entirely In order to make It at all
Markley—Sure! Here you are. Where with Its thousand throats. “Then you express your very, very pointed indig
thoughtfully, “there can be no such
thing us Joint rule in a family. Some had invited to her home several times, in fact, seven years earlier—in 1843— satisfactory. These fdets account fot is your twenty?
won't get ’em,” replied Olpherts. nation you shout, “There, there!”
although her father «lid not approve of that Carlisle had already given the title the allowance of a 10 per cent depre
Borroughs — Oh, you misunderstood “You're good enough soldiers. I'll ad
one must be the head.”
Thirty years ago the census dlscov-
“True; but the scepter pusses from him. They liecame separated from the "Captains of Industry” to a chapter of ciation In the value of all electric light me! I thought you had a twenty. mit. but if you think that Providence ere«l but four ice plants in the coun
one to another."
rest of us, and I found out afterward “Past and Present,” with frequent use plants, which those who know the busi Thanks! One five will do.—Philadel is willing to grow potatoes for your try, all of them In the south. In llMK)
"How?”
ness always estimate. They prove the phia Press.
hail had dinner together. 1 was called of the term in other papers.
benefit on the dry plains of India the number had Increased to 787, not
“Well, nt tlie beginning of married to San Francisco the next dav by the
expensiveness of that particular utili
you're blanker fools than I take you Including firms that made ice for them
Literally.
life tlie liusbnnd holds it; then it gently illness of my own father anil never re
for.” The demand for potatoes ceased. selves, and not more than half of them
In all but eleven of the fifty-two ty and explain why so many municipal
"I suppose,” said the supercilious
and unobtrusively pusses to the wife,
are In the south.
turned to the place where I had spent states and territories the male outnum electric light plants have been failures. stranger in town, “your city has bad
anil he never gets It back again.”
—Kansas City Star.
The election "barker” Is peculiar to
“lie Wan My Commander."
bers
the
female
population.
These
states
so
many
pleasant
days.
1
wrote
to
my
Its
ups
and
downs
notwithstanding
its
"She keeps it forever?”
While General Sherman lived in New French soil. At critical moments in a
are
along
the
Atlantic
seaboard.
Cali
friend,
however,
and
received
two
or
present prosperity.”
“Oh, no; the baby gets It next.”
King Hole* Family.
York he occupied one night each week candidate’s speech the “barker” puts
three replies, then my letters were re fornia contains the greatest excess of
“Yep,” replied the resident cheerful
It is not generally known that on
the proscenium box on tlie south side him out by Imitating a dog, and a real
men, the recorded number being 156,- ascending the throne King Edward ly; “still got ’em—streets being torn
Growing Suspicion*.
turned to me.
of the stage of Daly's theater. It was ly good man at the business Is worth
“I wonder who It was that snid po
» • » »
600; Minnesota comes second with 113,- became guardian of his grandchildren, up and old buildings being torn down." called "Sherman's box.* The gentl.* good money at such times. Half a doz
—
Cincinnati
Commercial
Tribune.
liteness doesn’t cost anything.” said
German who played the bass viol en of them In Paris earn enough at
“Two or three years passed, when I 586, Texas third 100,600 and Pennsylva the parents' right being superceded.
Farmer Corntossel.
This arrangement was established by
ilia fourth with 106,007.
whispered to Ills fellow musicians that election times to last them for a year.
received
a
letter
from
my
friend
’
s
moth
Deceptive.
“Don't you believe it?”
law nearly 200 years ago, and tlie
Brother Eugene, the monk who re
“Dey oughter pass a law,” said Hun the general's tobacco Juice was dost lov
"Well, I have my doubts. Whenever er, stating that her husband in a fit of
It is not generally known that, size right was frequently exercised by the gry Higgins, nursing his leg, "ter cum- ing Ills tlddle. Th«* old soldier spat in cently left New Melleray (la.) monas
auger
hail
turned
my
friend
out
of
the
I go to town and some strnnger Is es
for size, a thread of a spider silk is de Georges, who had a way of quarreling pel people ter call deir dogs be appro a sort of spray that sprinkled things in tery after spending twenty-three years
pecially polite to me 1 always feel ns home mmiii after I left the place and had
the neighborhood of the big fiddle. in solitude, subsisting on vegetables
cidedly tougher than a bar of steel. An with their sons. No member of the priate names.”
if it was liable to cost me anywhere disinherit««! her, bidding her never to
royal family may marry without the
"Wot’s de matter now?” inquired “Why dou't you complain to Mr. anil rising from bls liaril bed at 2 a. m.
from $1 to |75, accordin’ to how much disgrai'e the home again by darkening ordinary thread will bear the weight of king's consent: otherwise th«* marriage
Daly?” asked the lender of the or In order to sing matins, has been
I happen to have.”—Washington Star. itedoont, The letter, which was blotted three grains. This is just alsiut 50 per is «old. The act governing tills matter Dusty Rhoads.
"Why, a woman down de road said chestra. "Complain of Cheneral Sher granted a patent on a tailboard fasten
cent stronger than a steel threa«l of the was passed at the Instigation of
with tears, went «ill to say that they
If I didn’t git out o’ her yard she'd call man? Never! He was my commander ing for wagons. Brother Eugene is
same thickness.
Vanadi um.
George HI. in consequence of his
had never heard from tlie daughter ex
Fido. O' course I luffed. Den she in the war und I vonld no«l comblain now a resident of Dubuque, being
Vanadium does not melt in a bent of
brothers marrying subjects. Chicago
called Fido, and Fido didn't do a t'ing. if he spkl efery nide tn my face!" was known to the world as Joseph B. Gra
less than 2,000 degree* F., Is not nf cept through others and that she had
According to the Baltimore Sun, it is Tribune.
ham.
He was a big brindle bull!”—Chicago the reply.___________ __
fected by any acid, and Increasing, as sank lower and lower until she was said that in serious cases ofthedrinking
Tribune.
The
Irish
language
is
above
all
oth
A Choice af Hymn*.
it does, tlie ductility of copper, it Is nothing but an outcast. Her husband habit the average duration of life is
A Case In Point.
ers the language of lovers. You may
When the English troops in South
very valuable to the makers of elec was «lying of consumption, and now he alsiut fifteen years; the duration of life
A “Bird’* Anyway.
“Jobbers was thrown from his wheel
find in French or Spanish or Italian su Africa were daily expecting the an
trical appliances, but the price being bitterly repented of his treatmentof his
Mrs. Spenders—That's what I call a perlatives or diminutives of endear- nouncement of a peace settlement with
among moderate peritslieal inebriates is this morning, but he plucklly arose and
n pound, It Is almost prohibitive. ' daughter, and he could not die until
"duck
”
of
a
bonnet.
remounted.
”
alsiut nineteen years.
Iment, but you will never find anything the Boer leaders, a worthy dean tele-
she had lieen brought home and he had
"Indeed? Well, that's a case of
Mr. Spenders—Yes? I’d call it a “pel i so soft, so sweet, so subtle, so sad and graphed to Lord Kitchener from the
asked her forgiveness. She liegged me
Roman Roiera.
Tourist traffic has more than doublid man's not knowing when lie's well ican.”
sometimes so rapturously extravagant Orange River Colony, saying, “As I am
Mrs. Spenders—A "pelican?"
A boxer of ancient Rome would have to find her and restore her to them. in Syria during the last ten years. At off.”—Richmond Dispatch.
¡as you will find In the Irish language. the acting chaplain and conducting di
Mr. Spenders—Yes; on account of the
laughed contemptuously nt the stig i ‘1 don’t care how low she has fallen, present alsiut 750 foreign tourists, ex
vine service in many camps tomorrow,
Art. Not Nature.
Aptly Termed.
size of the bill.—Philadelphia Press.
gestion that be should use gloves in tell her mother has always loved her,
may I ask If the hymn ‘Peace, Perfect
clusive of pilgrims, are conducted.
I
Madge
After
she's
painted
her
face
A farm«** In a tlissl district, watching
his boxing matches. To make his and I want her to come home. I have
Peace,' would not be a most appropri
bls mortgaged house and barn fall over
blows more effective it was the cus
The records left by the Phoenicians, she always looks In tlie glass.
ate one to give out to be sung?” Aud
For a quarter of a century no new and float down the river, remarked.
heard
that
yon
were
a
member
of
the
|
Marjorie
—
So
that
’
s
one
girl
who
does
tom to bold in eacli hand a heavy hall
Assyrians and ancient Persians show
the great “K.” wired back, "Please
of metal. With liis fist thus weighted Salvation Army, anil if anytssiy can houses have been built in the Sussex “That represents my floating indebted that among all those nations the use not hold the mirror up to nature.—
yourself,
but I think ‘Onward, Chri*-
Smart
Set
(
England
)
village
of
Slindon.
find
her
you
can.
Bring
her
to
me,
for
ness.”
nearly every blow I-ronglit blood.
of perfumes was very comuiou.
1 tian Soldier!' quite as good.”
BANDON RECORDER.