BANDON RECORDER.
| POLLY LARKIN j
Home of I lieiu are ready furnished and
tour riMuns rent for about $40 to $wo a
month, according to location ami fur
nishing. In others there are suites of
Hirer rooms- parlor, laslroom and a
small kitchen. Allot tliesearr not less
(hail $31) to $45 a lliolith. There are
oilier apartment Imuses in different hr
calilies where suites of two or three
rooms ready for housekeeping are from
$|sanmnth up. The apartment houses
are really a blessing to people who want
to live ill a modest way, or for ladies
who possibly have to support them
selves and liud Is.arding too expensive
Maliy young couples start out on the
voyageof life together by renting house
keeping rtsims in some of the many
apartment Imuses where they could not
manage on the salary the young man
receives to rent ami tit up a flat. The
old bachelor to the contrary, there is
plenty of Imine-life ami happiness to lie
fount! in t lie apartment Imuses.
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The Ansonia Is the name of the larg
est apartment house in the world. It
is a seventeen-story structure and oc
cupies an entire block on Broadway,
New York, It contains no less than
2500 rooms above ground. It took over
three years to build it amt it has just
been completed. The building con
tains many novel arrangements for
heating, ventilation ami the supply of
Imt, cold and iced water. Tlie base
ment contain- a veritable museum of
twentieth ceulliiy innovations. Here
you will find a storage, repair ami
chaiging risini for automobiles; a gro
cery depot where everything ill the
line of eatables and household neces
saries may lie obtained by the tenants
at standard prices; a butchery, a bak
ery, a milk depot, a barber simp, laun
dry,ladies’ hairdressing ami manicuring
parlors, safe deposit vaults, cold storage
room for furs, etc. There is also one of
the largest swimming pisils in New
York, which will be used for a swim
ming school. Tlie cheapest bachelor
suite in this building, which consists of
one room ami bath, rent for $600ayear.
The family apartments range in size
from five rooms ami batli to fourteen
rooms and bath, and the rent varies
from $1500 to $6000 a year. These are
for unfurnished rooms, and gives you a
good idea of the cost of living in good
style in New York.
VIRGINIA SWALLOWWORT.
NEW SHORT STORIES
it* Beautiful Blo««oma Are Pitfall«
Fur Bee« and Bug«.
la« One Burger a Head Maal
A PERSIAN PARABLE.
THE SNIPE.
The Side of the World the Pe««lml»l
Had Xot Seeu.
Much Lead 1« Wasted on the Artful
D .User at Mlsratlua Time.
Tlie snipe, properly Wilson’s snipe,
Au interesting story is being told of
There was a certain man who
Jim Younger. It is said that when thought the world was growing worse. Gallinago deli-ata. but commonly
the bandit was sick lu the Minnesota He was always barking back to "the known as English snipe and wrong
Two ut Them A I. Ide in the K uuku
Re*lou Kiid Ou. lu Peru.
penitentiary a daughter of one of the good old times" and was sure that the full) called half a dozen other names.
Polly often worn lets wliat the teach
There are two remarkable diseases, ers of the present day think the chil
deputy wardens prepared delicacies human race was degenerating. Melt, Is a widely distributed species. It vis
its every state at some seasou. Its
either or both of which may attack dren are made of ami whether they
for him. Jim fell In love with her and he said, were all trying to cheat one northward migration extends within
you if you elect to reHide within the imagine the ,a>wer of endurance is so
when he wus pardoned secured her another, aud the strong were crushing tlie arctic circle, while It is known to go
the weak. Due day when lie was air
Congo basin, but you need have no
consent to marry him. Her parents ing his pessimistic views the calif said southward to iiorthern South America
dread of them If you live In auy other great that nature w ill nrvrl reliel at the
at
flrst
objected,
but
Anally
yielded.
and the West Indies. Comparatively
to liim:
part of the world. One la the sleeping unkind treatment that is imposed upon
When Jim went to get a license, how ' “1 charge you hereafter to look care few of tlie birds which move north
sickness, u terrible, mysterious and III the wee folks. Do they forget that they
ever, the official to whom he applied fully about you, and whenever you see ward from February until May breed
variably fatal malady. The patient is were ever children and that their inains
told, him that in the eyes of the law any man do a worthy deed go to him south of the international line. It is
at first only drowsy, but ends by ah-ep- wete taxed soinetiiiiea lieyond endur
he was a dead man and that he could aud give him praise or write to liim quite true there are breeding grounds
Ing almost continually, waking only ance at.d the tired Issly was so weary
for meals or when forcibly roused. that tl ey tossed and tumbled and
not Issue a llceuse to a corpse. Jim in about it. Whenever you meet a man at various points of tlie northern states,
Finally the torpor become* complete, w rist 'eil with problems ill their sleep?
vestigated and found. It is said, that whom you regard as worthy to have but tlie great bleeding range extends
from latitude 42 degrees north to some
lie cannot be roused even to take food, Appatenlly they do not, although 1
the ofliclui's construction of the laws lived ill tlie 'good old days,’ tell him mid-lermined |x>int much nearer the
of your esteem ami of the pleasure you
and dies of starvation.
of Minnesota was correct. He can be
have hud in tinding one so exalted, p..le than most sportsmen will venture.
Tin* other disease alluded to is even d •n't think they ever lushed children
legally restored to life only by a par and 1 desire that you write out an ac
Some time III September the flrst
through
the
schisda
in
tie
ir
.lay.
They
more curious, although fortunately not
don. mid past ex|>erlenee teaches him count of these good deeds for me that southbound birds pass below the Cana
nearly so deadly, uud is known to spe gave lilimls and Isidies time to grow
this is a very difficult thing to get. It 1 may share your Joy in knowing of dian grounds, and soon most of the
cialists in tropical diseases as alnhiim, and did not seem Io think that children
looks therefore as though lie and his It."
suitable marshy bits of east and west
from a negro word meaning n suw, a had to Is* crammed night and day. I
sweetheart will have to forego the
So the man whs dismissed. But be have their share of long billed prizes,
very apposite mime, for the typical would like to see the teacher of to-day
felled les of matrimony. A southern fore many days^ie returned aud pros 'then begins an astonishing attack
feature of the ailment consists In the who would take pleasantly to the task
Missouri paper Inquires what would trilled himself liefore the calif. When widen extends from ocean to ocean aud
slow amputation of one or more of tlie that they give the children for night
be done "dli a man who should kill ordered to explain his presence, he generally sweeps southward from Cau-
victim’s toes by meuns of a serrated
work. The following is a sample ol
Younger. "In the eyes of the law he . wailed:
tula to California. Probably tons of
bony ligature which grows around the
is dead." it reasons. "It would be ab I "Have pity on thy servant, and re lead, half of which is wasted, are tired
the
home-wot k t hat a junior high schisd
Joint of the affected member Just
surd to try a man for killing another lease him from the necessity of com at the artful dodger.—Edwyn Saiidys
Where It Joins the foot. As soon as the girl brought home with her tlie other
man who was already dead." Perhaps plimenting men upon their worthy In Outiag.
ligature is completely formed it begins evening: Twenty-live pages ot ancient
tlie murderer would be technically a deeds, oh. my master. And, oh, son of
to contract, and off comes the toe as history, ten problems in algebra, six
ghoul mid would be prosecuted for Mohammed. 1 pray thee absolve thy
That Awful Huy Jope«.
effectually, if not quite so quickly, as pages in mythology ami three pages in
grave robbery. The tine logic of the servant from the duty of reporting to
Fifty or more years ago “that awful
If it hud been severed by tlie surgeon's French, liesides giving an alistract of
law leads to strange conclusions some- thee all the good that Is going on in bey Jones" was the torment of Queen
knife.
fifteen lines of a ten-page poem. That
t.mes. Kansas City Journal.
Victoria's life, uml his short career iu
the world."
In tlie province of Cerro de Pasco, lu
child had studied hard, besides reciting
The l.ondon Silly Sea«ou.
“And why, oh, slave, dost thou come public contains a mystery which would
Peru, may be contracted a strange
“Always at the beginning of Au
He Didn't Enjoy tlie Meal.
to me with this prayer?” the calif try the mettle of Sherlock Holmes.
malady which consigns Its victim to her different lessons during the day.
gust,” says Sydney Brooks, "the editor
He was a barber’s apprentice who lu
Representative Williams of Missis asked.
certain and lingering death. Tin* ail She was tired when she arrived home,
of each l.ondon dally easts about for sippi tells an mousing story of the flrst
"Since 1 have been looking for what some unexplained way discovered a
ment in question is termed verrugas but had to practice her music lesson for
n subject that will ‘fetch’ the great time he ever saw a white domestic Is good,” the mau replied, "I have had passage into Buckingham palace, with
(Spanish, a wart), and it occurs only the next hour. Then she commenced
British public and till the correspond servant. He relates: “1 wus Just out of no time to do aught but compliment which lie alone was acquainted. When
lu certain deep vulleys In tlie highlands studying her lessons for Hie following
cnee column, such as 'Is Marriage a tlie University of Virginia and was go men for their splendid works. So much lie was first found trespassing, he was
of that province. There, however, it Is day, stopping only for her dinner,
Failure?' 'The Decay of Domesticity,’ ing north on my way to Europe. The that is glorious Is all around me that gently admonished and sent home.
endemic and frightfully fatal, esjiecial w h ch she was too tiled to enjoy. Her
’English Versus American Women,’ train stopped twenty minutes for re 1 may not hoi>e to be able to tell thee Soon after he wus encountered again
ly to tlie unaccllmatlzed wldte man. mother w ent into her risini at II o'clock
'Why Don’t Young Men Marry?' freshments at Centralia. III. Down to half of It. M.v tasks lie neglected be In the palace. He would not tell how
The whole surface of the body In bad
'Should Women Work?’ or ‘Are We ward the end of the table In the dining cause I have no time”—
he obtained access. Again he was seut
cases becomes entirely covered with and found her asleep over her Issiks,
Improvident?’ A member of the pa room I saw a vacant chair and was
“Go back to thy work,” said the home, and again he reappeared.
spongy, wartlike excrescences, varying her face draw n and white from sheer
per's staff will write a letter to the about to seat myself when I saw a calif. "I perceive that thou bast
Once lie calmly admitted that he bad
from the size of a raspberry to that of weariness. With the exception of tlie
editor opening the hall. Another mem comely young woman standing close learned."
been lodging In the palace for a fort
a pigeon’s egg. and from every one of abstract, the above is only a sample of
ber will reply to him. Instantly from by. Of course I would not lie so rude
night. lie had laid snug during the
these the patient’s life blood oozes out her home-work for nearly every night
t'lapham and Brixton und throbbing as to take n seat when a lady was
The Ruin of Restaurants.
day, slei ping in the royal apartments,
continually until he perishes of inani III the week.
provincial households there sets In a standing, so I politely asked tier to be
A young man who dines quite fre and at night lind wandered from room
tion.—Chambers' Journal.
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steady stream of letter* all genuine seated and withdrew. I went around quently in a French restaurant, whose to room, helping himself to the food
Where is the teacher who would
and argumentative and for the most to the other side of the table, where reputation is based on tlie unvarying left over from royal repasts. He had
FIGHT SICKNESS.
want to feel after her day’s work in the
part quite appallingly earnest. It is
excellence of the dishes served, sent seen the queen repeatedly und indeed
schoolroom that she must devote her
a most curious phenomenon, such, I
for the chef the other night to compli had never been fur from her.
Fear Will Harm and Courage Help
suppose, iis no other country can show.
evenings to memorizing twenty-live
ment him on a'poulet en casserole. "1
The matter was considered so serious
You When III.eK.r Cornea.
For thousands of men and women
like you.” said the cook, "because you that the boy was summoned before a
Illness is most like a cowardly cur pages of history, solving ten hard ex
these annual discussions would seem
never bring any women in this place. special meeting of the privy council.
which gives chase If you tiee from It, amples in algebra and committing to
to he their one elianee of really open
They ruin a cook and a restaurant. A He refused to give any account of ilia
but goes on about its business, that of memory three pages of French, beside
ing their hearts and minds to the
gentleman who comes in alone for his secret. Soou after lie disappeared, aud
seeking the fearful ones. If you pass her lesson in mythology? Do you
world, and a very strange spectacle
dinner regards the dishes and pays his It is supposed that he was removed un
on unnotlelng. but courageous. The wonder that there are so many chil
they muke when opened, the minds es
whole attention to the food be is eat der state protection.
reasons for the ability of brave men to dren with broken-down constitutions,
pecially. No one who really wanted
ing. But when he is with a woman!
BRIEF REVIEW.
go unharmed through pest hospitals,
so many suffering from nervous collapse
to study England could Ignore these
Bali! He laughs, lie talks, he regards
PromlnliiH- For the Tenor«.
as did Napoleon aud ns physicians do
only his companion. Ills attention is dis
Three tenors while strolling lu Paris
every day, are not only psychological, ami brain troubles? Or, is it at all Guns Made Invisible by means of Paint. debates. They throw more thun a lit
tracted, the cook and bis work are for began to talk of their engagements tor
strange that so many children have to
but physiological.
A novel artillery experiment has just tie light on tlie English character and
gotten. 1 do not try for them. The tlie coming season.
The quality of mere courage seems wear glasses when you stop to think of taken place at Aldershot. By an in the average English Intelligence.”
boys who are learning prepare tlielr
"Where are you two fellows going?”
to have a sort of pickling and harden the strain on their eyes all day and genious method of painting guns and
Clal»e«e Etiquette.
dinners. It Is not popularity that ruins usked one.
ing effect upon the tissues of tile body, I hen studying by gaslight? The only limbers in the three primary colors, red
The polite Chinaman will always re
a restaurant, it is the women and mu
“I'm going to Rio Janeiro.” answered
like the plunge in brine, steeling them wonder to Polly is that more children
sic.”—New York l'ost.
one of his companions.
against infection, while fear, by ‘‘un do not sink under the cramming pnw- blue and yellow, they have been found fer to himself in deprecatory terms.
to harmonize with any sort of ground This trilit of Chinese etiquette Is aptly
"So am 1," answered the other oue.
stringing” tlie nerves, weakens the
ess. Children are much farther ad or background so admirably that at a expressed in one of their own tales, in
"That’s very queer,” said the first
The Printer'« Devil.
whole resisting power of the body, In
vanced now than they were at tile same short distance they are very dillleuit to which a visitor Is represented as cull
The familiar term "printer’s devil," speaker, "for I'm going there too.”
viting the very evil feared most.
They then compared notes and, find
as applied to the boy of all work about
The scientific health Journals have age when their fathers amt mothers locate. Hix gims so painted were placid Ing in his best clothes and seated in
a printing office. Is said by tlie Fourth ing tiiat tlie same theatrical manager
been discussing this potent fact in hy i ttelideii tlie public schools, or in the on Fox Hills and the artillery officers the reception room awaiting the ar
Estate to have originated with Aldus had engaged each of them, they called
gienic laws to a great extent and urg days of their grandmothers, when at Aldershot were invited to try and lo rival of his host. A rat that had been
Manutlus. He employed a small negro on him and asked for an explanation.
ing Its recognition by the masses.
“readin’, writin’ and cipherin' ” were cale them with field glasses at a dis prying in u Jar of oil oil u rafter above,
frightened at the intrusion of the call
“I don't see why any df you should
boy, a curiosity In those days in Eu
"Fear weakens tlie heart’s action," all that was required of them, and the
rope, who became known as the "Lit lie dissatisfied," he replied. "I've en
says Health in an article on this sub pupil who had a fair knowledge of these tance of about 3000 yards. Although er, ran away and In so doing upset the
tle Black Devil.” Printing was then a gaged each of you because 1 don't want
ject, "Induces congestion, Invites Indi three studies was considered fairly well all the officers knew the direction in oil Jar, which fell on the visitor, satu
which the guns lay, not one was aide rating his elegant robes with oil. Just
mystery, and a superstition spread that to be left without a tenor in Rio Ja
gestion, produces poison through de
"AGAIN I BOWED.”
composing foods and Is thus the moth equiplH'd to battle with the world. to point out all of them. Home horse ns the face of the guest was purple there wus one more empty chair. I Aldus was Invoking tlie black art and neiro. it is very probable that before
er of autopoisoning, which either di Times have changed, and now the man artillery that was sent forward to en with ritge the host entered, when the was about to take that when I noticed that the negro boy was the embodi you are acclimated there yellow fever
rectly causes or greatly aids In the pro- or woman alsmt to launch forth on a gage the guns advanced within loot) proper salutations were performed, another young woman standing beside ment of Satan. To correct tills opinion will carry off' two of you. and wouldn’t
duct Ion of quite IM) per cent of irtl our business career must have a fairly good yards before they loeated them. At after wlileh the guest pns'eeded to ex me. Again-1 bowed, und requested that Aldus publicly exhibited tlie black boy 1 lie in a nice tlx then if I hadn't a
diseases.”
education, a thorough grammar school ldo.se quarters the guns appear to Is' all plain the situation, “As 1'eiitered yoitf she be seated, remarking that 1 wus uml declared: "*Be ft known to Venlt'C third tenor <n> hand?”
honorable apartment ami seated my
that I, Aldus Manutlus. printer to the
In recognizing this law, however, it course at least. But children should
self under your honorable beam I in not very hungry mid could wait. By holy church and to the doge, have this
The Value ut a StruKKle.
Is Just as well to carry In a small not be .started to schisd for the sake of daubs and streaks.
advertently terrified your honorable this time I realized that I was attract day made public exposure of the print
It is a curious fact in tlie Idstory of
pocket of one’s memory the old adage, getting them out of the house when
ing
some
attention,
but
I
could
not
ac
For Safety on Trolly Cars.
rat. which fled and upset your honora
er's devil. All those who think he is nations Unit only those which have bad
‘‘Discretion is the better part of valor.”
A clever arrangement for at once se ble oil Jar upon my iiisignitlcant per count for it mid wondered If the boor not flesh and blood may come uml to struggle tlie hardest for an exist
and to avoid running needless dangers. they are mere babies and crammed with
ish
crowd
were
laughing
ut
my
man
ence have been highly successful. As
But it Is a well known fact that small Issik lore until I heir dreams are t run bled curing safety along trolley roads in ease son, which is tlie reason of my con tiers. Just then a big Hoosier caught pinch him."
u rule the same thing is true of meu.
pox and like contagions will attack and their health ruined. If Polly had of fallen wiles or other accidents is the temptible appearance iti your honora hold of my coattails and said. 'Say.
ble
presence.
”
One would think that it would be a
Wllllna to Compromise.
first those who are trembling for fear her way there would he precious little invention of two electrical engineers of
buddle, where do you come from any
A story of the Colombian idea of tax great relief to have tlie bread and but
of It, often leaving unscathed the night work.
London. The device is contained with
way?
’
I
was
beginning
to
get
a
bit
an
Unjustly Punished.
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ation is told by a traveler who recently ter problem solved by one’s ancestors
brave ones who are in the thickest of it
in a east iron I mix , which may Is* fast
A friend of mine returning to camp gry and replied rather sharply thut I visited that South American country.
so that one might devote all Ills ener
nursing, tending and even burying the
‘‘There is no home-life In an apart ened to a trolley wire. It is held open
after a day’s shooting, says a writer wus from Mississippi. ’I thought so,’
"Some American friends of mine,” gies and time to tlie development of
plague stricken.
ment house,” growled an old bachelor by a cord, which is released by’ tlie hi Navy and Army, suddenly came in he said. 'Now sit down and eat. The
With an armor welded of equal the other day, who, by the way, lived
girl Is a waitress and Is standing there said the traveler, “were visited by the the mental and spiritual faculties. But
this is contrary to the verdict of his
quantities of precaution ami courage at one of the finest clubs in Sail Fran breaking of a pane of glass. In case of sight of a big she bear with two cubs to serve you.’ I sat down, but I was so city officials of Colon.
an accident all that is needed to make following In single tile proceeding much astonished and embarrassed that
“ ‘Senor,’ said the leader of the dele tory and tlie daily experience of the
one stands a goasl chance of Immunity
gation, 'we have come to collect $12 in world. The strugglers, those born to a
from the attacking hordes of disease cisco. “My sister lias just moved into the section safe is to break tills pane of along a ridge, the forms of the three I did not enjoy the meal."
an apartment house with her three glass. Tlie grounding of the line gives being sharply silhouetted against the
microbes.—New York Herald.
gold from you, your share of the cost heritage of poverty and toil mid not
children,” lie continued, “and I would notice at the power-house, ami repairs sky. It was a very long shot, but lie
of collecting the garbage for this year.” those reared iu the lap of fortune,
Captain Clark'« Frail Story.
like to know what freedom or home can lie scut at once to t he proper stat ion. determined to try It, so drew a bead
" 'But, my dear sir,' said the Ameri have, with a few exceptions, been the
(luba. CaL.j and Goal.
Captain Charles Clark is a Vermont
on the old she bear and tired. The re
A physician talking to a reporter of comfort she can expect to enjoy m Ho long as the line is grounded there is sult was curious. The procession er by birth, but has spent so much of can in surprise, 'you have uot collected leaders of civilization, the giants of
a New York paper asserted recently three or four rooms. Don’t know what no danger to the workmen in making stopped, tlie she bear scratched her his time in the west that he tells more the garbage once during the whole the race.—Success.
year.’
that gout is rapidly increasing In that she is thinking about any way, to give repairs.
self hastily, then turned around aud, storfes of that part of the country
A Straight Tip.
" ‘That's true,’ said the collector,
city as a disease prevalent among tlie up her big ten-room house with a nice
regarding tlie cub immediately behind than of bis own. One of these has to scratching his head. 'Well, let's make
Little Boy—1 say. mamma says you
wealthy classes, the increase being al flower garden ami a big back yard for
Pouring Pillars by Mold.
witli grave disapproval, boxed Its do with the prevailing ignorance of It $t>. then."
are going to take sister away.
together out of proportion to the the children to play ill and content
ears soundly and then went trundling easterners of the price commanded by
Engaged Young Man (soon to be mar
Thomas
A.
Edison,
the
famous
elec
growth of population. He claims that
California
fruits
in
the
markets
of
San
on along tlie ridge, evidently under
ried)—Yes, in a few weeks she's coin
Matthew Arnold's Hutlenes«.
this is largely attributable to the in herself in an apartment house to be trician, once perdicteil that we should the Impression that her frolicsome off Francisco. The impression of tlie man
“Do you take sugar and cream'." a ing to my home, and my mamma ami
crease of clubs, fashionable restau mixed up with a lot of other people she some time make a great mold and pour spring had been up to some unusually from New York or Philadelphia seems
hostess asked Matthew Arnold from papa will be her mamma and papa.
rants ami cafes anil also to the gen doesn’t know I’m disgusted w ith her, a house with liquid cement. Approach objectionable tricks.
to be that fruit must necessarily be
Little Boy—I see. Then she'll be your
behind the breakfast urn.
eral use of cabs, even when the dis but I supposeshe’slikeallotherwomen, ing that idea is the method of making
very cheap on the Pacific coast, where
'‘Neither.” he replied. “1 only take sister same as she was mine. But, I
tance from the club to the home Is she’s got to have a’ehange, and if it is pillars at the World’s Fair. Great flut
as
the
fact
Is
that
it
sells
nearly
as
Satirical.
say, don't you do anything she doesn't
creaui when the coffee is misty."
only a few blocks. If people would not one thing it must be another.”
ed pillars thirty-six feet high and four
"Did you know." said the young man high there as in the east.
The feelings of the hostess may be like, for, if you do, she'll bang you
take more active exercise in the open
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“1 found that out before I bad been
ami a half feet in diameter are now who tried to (lose as a handy volume
Imagined after this statement to have ubout awfully when your mamma and
air, they would run less risk from
of information, “that there was a time In the western capital a day." says the her guest taste tlie beverage and di papa ain't looking.
lieing
made
in
a
mold
set
in
place,
the
Polly
could
have
told
this
bachelor
heavy meals. He says that rich foodt
captain.
"My
second
and
not
needed
when It was considered a crime for a
rect the waitress to bring him sugar
are more responsible for gout than brother, who lived like a prince in Ins liquid plaster lieing poured in at the man to kiss his wife on Sunday?”
lesson came the next morning. Just
aud cream.
The Leuat of the Lot.
wine, although practically the two handsome apartments at the club, that top. Ordinarily such pillars are made
"Indeed!" rejoined Miss Cayenne. as I reached the fruit stand opposite
usually go together.
Mother—And so your friend Clara Is
this sister he was finding fault with in twenty-four pieces and set in place, "And now there are a number of In the hotel a lady, who was from the
Quite Con«l«tent.
soon to be married?
had met reverses since her husband’s leaving many joints that have Io be stances In which it would probably be east from her accent and who was a
Miss Malnciiantz—I suppose you've
Daughter (Just returned from a long
Ftdltorlal I oi II kohi I oii .
carefully
pointed.
There
will
lie
112
woman
of
means
aud
refinement,
to
death. In fact, when everything was
looked on more as a penance."—Wash
l beard of m; engagement to Mr. Jenks? absence)—Yes. Doesn't It seem strange?
The lady (?) who yesterday called settled up and tlie lawyers had received such columns on the Textiles building. ington .Star,
Judge from her dress and bearing,
Miss Ascott— Yes. mid I confess I I hadn’t heard a word about It until
the attention of another to our patched
stepped up to the proprietor and said:
their fees for attending to the business
was surprised. You told me once that 1 called to see her this morning. She
Richest People in the World.
breeches, whereat both laughed so
'I
want
5
cents'
worth
of
mixed
fruit,
The Stopover No Trouble.
you wouldn't marry him for a million showed me her trousseau. It’s perfect
heartily, is informed that a new pair there was little left beside the home.
Hennepeck—Do our tickets allow us please. Make it mostly pineapples.' ”
The Osage Indians of Oklahoma are
dollars.
ly lovely. Just from Paris, anil she has
will lie purchased when her husband s She found she could rent her lovely said to have $8,000,001) cash on deposit to stop over?
Miss Malnciiantz- I know, dear, but the handsomest ring I ever saw. and
bill is settled. It has been due nearly home for a good sum to res|M>iisible
Mrs.
Hennepeck
—
You
can
stop
over
The
Difference.
1 discovered later that be had two mil she showed me the house she is to live
a year. Don't criticise a priider's dress parties, and by taking tlm three or four in Washington ami own 1,-500,000 acres anywhere you like. The trouble will
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of
too closely while you are wearing silk rooms ill an apartment house ready of land, worth another $8,000,000. Their all come when you get on the next Columbia college and who was given a lions. —Philadelphia Press.
in and the furniture she has selected
with money due us. Tell your husband furnished she could put a nice little sum realty holdings givea per capita wealth train to continue the trip with the degree last commencement day by the
ami the horses and carriages she Is to
Merely
a
Queatlou
of
Judgment.
to send us $40.78 and save the cost of by each month. The amount whi< h of $4000 for every brave, squaw and same old ticket.—Los Angeles Herald. University of Pennsylvania, was re
have. She showed me everything ex
“What 1« it that leads a woman who
a lawsuit. We need another pair of seemed so well worth life saving had pafMsme in the trilie, The interest on
cently engaged In talking with a friend bus married unhappily mid got a di cept the man she Is going to marry. I
suppose she forgot about him.- London
punts Des Moines Register and Lead
A l.«e For Money,
aboflt the careers of various Columbia vorce to marry again?”
been given to her during her husband’s their money in Washington affords an
Answers.
er.
Rector—Remember, my youug friend, graduates who bad gone ahead lu the
lifetime for pin money. She had never nually a little over $3110 to each mem-
"Curiosity.”
there are things In life better than world. One of two alumni whose names
The Way of the World.
lier,
old,
middle-aged
and
young.
This
“Curiosity!"
known tlie value of money pefore, hut
Lake Color«.
had come up had been recently created
We met the people going one way now a dollar saved was a dollar earned. makes the Usages the richest people in money.
“Certainly. She’s curious to learn if
Some lakes are distinctly blue, others
Young
Friend
—
Yes;
1
know
that,
but
a
Judge,
the
other
a
bishop.
with their arms loaded with beautiful
her Judgment of men Ims improved.”— present various shades of green, so
She had wealthy relatives, her bachelor the world.
It takes money to buy them.
"Well,” said President Butler’s Chicago Post.
flowers.
that in some cases they are distill
brother
included,
hut
nothing
would
There are torty-seveii ty|>ewriter fac
frleml, "the latter has the better post
"Whither do you drift?” we asked.
gulshable from their level, grass cov
The Jail.
tion, I think. A Judge at the most enn |
“We go,” they exclaimed, “to adorn have induced her to call on them fora tories reported to the Census Bureau,
The Worried Housewife.
cent, she was t<s> proud and independ with an annual pnshict worth about
“I am going to visit the Jail. There say only, ‘You'll be banged,’ but n 1 Husband —What have you been look ered banks, and a few are almost
the graves of our dead heroes.”
black. The Lake of Geneva Is azure
Is
a
mau
I
want
to
see
there.
”
bishop
can
say,
‘
You'll
be
damned.'
"
Later on we met them with their ent for that. It was a crushing blow Io $7,000,1100. The foreign sales for 11100
lug so blue about all day. my dear?
hu<*d, tlie Luke of Constance and the
“Is one all? 1 know about forty
“That’s true as to the saving o’t,” re
arms full of bricks.
her to have to give up the home where amounted to $2,700,000.
Wife—I'm afraid our hired girl won't Lake of Lucerne are green, uud tlie
• whom I should like to see there."—In plied Butler, “but If the Judge sn.is
“And now where?” we asked again. she had lieeu so happy, and she had
approve of our new washerwoman.- color of the Mediterranean has been
dianapolis
News.
‘
You
’
ll
be
banged,'
you'll
be
hanged.'
“To throw these at our living he bed many bitter tears over the sacri
A murderer in Canada, awaiting exe
■Boston Post.
called Indigo. The Lake of ttrienz Is
roes,” they again explained, with pity
fice, but no one, not even her children, cution, insisted on a game of piiig-|s>ng
greenish yellow, and Its neighbor, Lake
A
Judicial
Gem.
Rml
E«ertlon.
ing smiles at our dumbness.
Anver.
Thun, Is blue.—Loudon Spectator
knew what a cross it was to her Io just preceding death, and h I so for a
“And so this Is your gym nasi urn?”
“A husband is uot guilty of desertion
It
is
said
that
anger
is
one
of
tlie
view of the scaffold, Isilli of which asked the guest. "But where are your when bls wife rents his ro- m to a
commence life in this bumble way.
most
harmful
emotions,
in
fact
that
The Artist*« Achievement.
wishes were gratified.
gy m nast Ic a ppiia nces ?”
boarder and crowds him out of the very few are aware how frightfully
• * • •
The Millennium.
Towne—I guess we'll have to take
“I don’t need any.” was the reply. "1 house." This is no Joke, but a piece of dangerous It is to tlie average person.
Little
Dot
—1 know something my
If
it
were
not
for
the
apartment
back all the sneering things we said
Among the few great joys of life is And that I get all the exercise I need solemn Judicial wisdom. It Is found in
There is on record this saying of a teacher doesn’t know.
Imuses in this city I am sure I don't staying in lied fifteen minutes after we Just getting Into and out of my nth- 153 Penn. St., 400.
about D’Auber.
Mainma-lndeed! What Is that?
great doctor: "He Is n mail very rich
Browne—Why?
know what many families would do know we ought to get up.
letlc suits." —Baltimore American.
"1 know when the world is coming
indeed In physical power who can af
Towne—He told me yesterday he bad who desire no more than three or four
People who sell newspapers In the ford to be angry.”
to an end and she doesn’t. I asked
Just completed a live thousand dollar rooms, and it is almost impossible to
The one time iu a man’s life w hen he
The Japanese eat more fish than any streets of Moscow are compelled to ap
her and she said she didn't know."
painting for Mr. Kiel S. Tate.
is
satisfied
to
taken
back
seat
is
when
pear
In
uniform.
find a flat or a cottage of less than six
other people in the world. With them
Not Always Lucky.
"Oh. well, who told you?"
Browne- Yes, it was a large sign,
he
goes
to
church.
meat eating is a foreign Innovation,
“Do you believe that odd* nmnliers
or seven rtsims in the city that is desir
“Uncle John. He said the world
“This Corner Lot, Cl) by 140, For Sale,
Those who have disagreeable news are lucky?”
would come to an end when children
able. Apartment Imuses are springing
Life is only a brief lesson, ami the confined to the rich or. rather, to those
>5,000.”- I’blludelpldu Pless.
rich people who prefer It to the nation to tell you always find you iu. -Atchi
“Well, I’d rather be the father of stopped asking questions that nobody
up ill Han Fram-iseo like mushrooms. "< I khi I' s out liefore we know it.
al diet.
son Globe
twluk than triplets."—New York Times could answer.”
THREE QUEER DISEASES.
Holley bees and Insects aud bugs of
less degree tilid pitfalls aud often death
in the beautiful blossoms of the milk
weed, otherwise known as the Virginia
swallowwort. If these flowers are ex
amined any sunny day, one will be
pretty sure to And them decorated with
a miscellaneous assortment of strug
gling or dead insects with their legs
fast In the slits of the peculiar blos
soms. The isilleii of this common plant,
instead of being a powder, as In the
case of most plants, consists of sticky,
waxen masses hidden within the blos
som. When a visiting insect thrusts
a proboscis or leg into the opening of
such a flower, some of these masses
stick to it, and the natural course Is for
the insect to flay off to another flower
and fertilize this with the adhering pol
len. All insects, however, are not strong
enough to extricate their legs from the
sticky places, and then ensues the slow
torture of hanging there until death or
a helping hand releases them from mis
ery. Besides being beautiful, it could
be quite a useful plant if we cared to
develop its virtues. Thus its milky
Juice contains caoutchouc. Brown sug
ar has been made from the flowers.
The silky hairs of the seeds are serv
iceable in the manufacture of textile
fabrics, as cotton Is, and a fiber of
good quality for ropeniaking may be
extracted from the stalk.