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rases' Ih» row think I ever ever roil.
the roses «ere Are« |fnl I almo««
I 4'OiMed Mrs Kempton a skill In Iheb
behalf, and I pitied the girl, shrlnklns
with all her heart front a nmrtlfrlna
ordeal, hut I knew there was nnlr him
answer tn her question.
• Yes. my <|ear.” said I. "I think roti
ran ami will. It takes « deal of pl»»« k
to hare h tooth out. you ktwu‘. but tie
sharp, relieving pain la far easier tu
mh « my well known "kn«<k at hgg«*r
lu'" that I mlneed old iH-toion Dini ley. I tea t than weeks of dull, wearing air
the aupervlaor, to lo*«tow ii | h . ii me tin* gulsh It Is going to take real grit tv
Rauch coveted I'enter «eliool. It M«« wear that floM’ered dress, but the ills
the largest In town, the har<le«t ami comfort of un hour Is not to Ite com
the l*e«t paid. I huh only eighteen nt pared to the remorse of a lifetime.”
“Just will!t mother told me,” said
the time. Imt family mlsfortline«, fol
lowed by the «Ickne«« mid death of ill) Dolly. bundling up her unwehvime poa
lather, made the necexHlty for employ seaalon.
I did not see the drew« again, but I
ment urgent and Imperativ«*.
Heavily handicapped by youth and heard a great deal aleiut it before th»
inex|M*rlen<*e, my tirxt term waa a «uc im|K>rtant day arri veil. I wanted tc
cession of disappointment« and <li»ll- explain matters, but Dolly positively
forbade anything of the kind, and as
I unions.
Gradually as I became acquainted her dowered gown was regarded by
with my pupils and accustomed to my «orne as a uccesaury concession to por
duties I acquired the faculty of ad
justing myself to my surroundings,
after which my work became much
easier and more satisfactory. Term
after term passed until I felt my post
tlon to be assured. For six years I
held it, ciphering annually through the
higher algebra, to the wonder of my
pupils and the satisfaction of their
parents. Being a district school, there
could be no real graduation, but grad
ually the day had taken upon itself the
dignity and importance of an annual
celebration.
At first I had been one of Its most
enthusiastic aup|M>rters, believing that
Its coveted successes would not only
stimulate ambition ami reward Indus
try. but would also tend toward the
establishment of a much needed free
high school. Yet I now realized, with
pain, tiiat it hade fair to be a culinina
tlon of jealousy, unkind emulation i"'d
uu neeessa ry ex t ra va ga nee.
Tlie leader in every extravagant de
vice was naturally enough Muriel .Ma
son. only daughter of the richest mail
In town. Born to command, she held She »topped forward to read her emiau-
her own against all opposition until erty, by others as a sign of open insub
the subject of dress was broached.
ordination against the white dress rule.
Ill her case the Important gown was
Graduation day dawned bright and
to be a dainty creation of white lace clear. The church was crowded. The
and surah; therefore she decreed that expected governor arrived in excellent
her classmates should likewise drupe seuson, bringing with him a visiting
themselves In white.
senator, and everything seemed har
“Tlint is not fair.” protested l.ura monious with the exception of one
Haley, who delighted in gay fabrics rosy looking dress among a half dozen
and vivid coloring. "1 am sure I don't white ones.
want to accentuate my natural ugli
The exercises passed off with what
ness.”
might be termed “great eclat.” The
"It won’t make any difference oil the young ladies were graceful and win
stage.” said Muriel with careless nil ning; their parts well prepared; tlielr
kindness.
enunciation clear and distinct. The
.After this experimental tilt, ns no young gentlemen were less awkward
further opposition was hazarded, the than usual under such circumstances.
white dress rule was supposed to lie The pink dress was so modernized tiiat
imperative. That evening 1 lolly Kemp It could not be called conspicuous; still
tun came to me, her pretty face cloud I saw the consciousness of its vivid
eil, her young arms loaded.
roses stam|H*d on the flushed cheeks of
Poor Holly! I divined her trouble be Its wearer when she stepped forward
fore she voiced it. She was a delicate to read tier essay.
little creature, studious and relined, yet
It was a very unambitious effort,
nut exactly |sqiular among Iter mates. simply a prose version of the story of
She was poor, undisguisedly and nude Evangeline. Yet I saw with surprise
niubly so. She lived with her widowed tliut Senator Borden, a scholar as well
mother and an aged woman known as as politician, gave the short reading
Aunt Marty, a queer, irresponsible old tlie most profound and marked atten
body, who witli the slightest possible tion.
claim had burdened them for years.
After the exercises the eminent visit
With pauperism staring her in the face ors held an informal reception, shak
she had tied fur shelter to Mrs. Kemp ing bands with every one and good
ton, who was herself ill straitened naturedly giving their autographs to
circumstances. The connection be all |ietitloners. Dolly, however, took no
tween them was of the slightest and purt in this bit of impromptu festivity,
entailed neither legal nor moral nidi but, anxious tu divest herself of her
gallon, yet she cared for the poor soul obnoxious finery, hurried nt once from
kindly, so stretching her meager in the church.
come that it covered Hi«' bare necessi
When the crowd bad nearly dis
ties of life for the three herself, her persed, Senator Borden surprised me
daughter and their perennial guest.
by asking, with au expression of real
Knowing the circumstances. I could interest, tor the young lady iu pink. I
well understand what a perplexing told him her name and volunteered the
question graduating expenses must be information that she hail gone directly
In that pinched household, but I was home.
hardly prepared for the solution which
"I am sorry,” said be. "I wanted to
Dolly's big bundle contained. She meet her. Her face, her voice, her ges-
opened it. spreading before my aston • tures. all seemed wonderfully famil
ished eyes a garment quaintly beautl iar. I cannot place the resemblance,
fill lu tint and texture, but grotesque but It moved me strangely. Her name
In figure and design an ancient dress tells me nothiug. and yet her face, her
of white silk tissue, gayly brocaded dress, some trick of voice or manner,
with huge garlands of pink roses and took me back a half century. Ah!”
green leaves The fabric itself was ex with a sudden start. *T have It now.
quisitely tine and delicate, tile ground It was my sister she recalled. She
work time yellowed Into the softest wore Just such a rosy gown the last
ivory tlut; but. alas, the passing years time I ever saw her. I’oor Marty! Far-,
bad wrought no such refining change don me. Miss Deacon, but do you know
upon the overblown roses ami over anything of her family history? The
grown leaves running riotously over resemblance may be purely accidental,
the scant skirt and low Imdlce of this but it interests me.”
Something of Ills Interest hud com
Impossible gown.
"Dear Miss Deacon,” said Dolly, with municated Itself to me. with bls volun
a little nervous laugh that had in it a tary exclamation of "Foor Marty!” the
hint of tears, “do you think that any girl who wore Just such a rosy gown
circumstances or combination of cir tlie last time he ever saw her.
"Mr. Borden," sniil I eagerly, “might
cumstances could make it one's duty
to wear that for a graduating dress?” It not have been the noticeable dress
Instead of the girl's personality that
I looked at her In astonishment.
“Mother wants me to wear it.” she Impressed you? Forty years ago It lie-
went on. “and Indeed I want to. after longed to Martha Faget: was, in fact,
a fashion, yet. all the same, my soul her wedding gown.”
abhors those ancient roses. You see.
“Martha Paget!” cried lie. “That was
it was Aunt Marty’s wedding gown my sister's name. She was older thnn
and. In her eyes, as tine and valuable I and very beautiful, but she dimilieyed
ns ever. Through all the shifts and my father. He never forgave her. uml
changes of her most unhappy life site while be lived 1 never heard her mime
has clung to this sole relic of happier mentioned. Since his death I have
days. I fancy that after her husband's ■earched for her long and unavailing-
death Ills people made much of her for ly."
“I think your search is ended." said
a time. Her father was wealthy, and
there was always the chance of his re I. “and that you will And her living
lenting. but as one by one her over with Mrs Kempton In this village."
“Is it far from here? Would yot:
tures were Ignored and her letters re
turned unopened tills poMlbillty grew sliow me tlie way?" questioned he ea
less and less until after the family gerly. and the next moment we were
moved east It ceased altogether. She hurrying down the broad elm shaded
was never strong or smart or capable, street.
As we neared the Kempton cottage I
and little by little every one’s patience
gave way until even our home, with Its saw Mrs. Paget sitting on the tiny vlnr
many privations, seemed a very haven wreathed piazza. Her soft white hall
shone tn the sunlight, her pain dis
of rest to her.
This afternoon Mrs. Mason called torted hands lay Idly on her lap, her
snd talked of nothing but "the uecea cotton gown and stiffly starched apron
sary expenses of the coming occasion.’ were clean and speckles«, but her face,
She left poor nuntie nearly frantic am sorrow seamed and time defaced, bore
absolutely determined to throw her no trace of bloom or beauty.
"And yet.” said my companion, seem
self upon the town. She hail felt it hei
duty ever since she became so helplesi lug to divine my thoughts. "It la Marty
with rheumatism. Nothing but th« herself, the very Image of our mother
fact that she had rather die than live as I saw her last.” He went swiftly
with Mary Ann Biggs had kept het up the little graveled path, hta face
with us for the last year. Toor oh growing visibly paler as he walked.
Just in front of her he atopped. and
■null She would have a hard time will
that rough woipan In that great barn for a moment's apace no word pasaed
fill of paupers. We have made our between them. Then the woman arose,
selves out perfect Vanderbilts to keej her worn face working, her failed eyes
her quiet, but today she would not Is brightening, her bands appealingly ex
pacified and. after nearly crying her tended.
self sick, wrote to the selectmen. Be
"Father," she cried, "father, forgive
Renats' Renats“ she »sromeA
kinging herself
Mtn fhe mens
iha, followed waa Ina sacred far st tan
ger eyes tn t»<k upon and an 1 qirtetly
wilhifres fo*' g ha« h tn mt »telayro
Au' »*«
That aftern«a»w I was “a , --»*-»nage’
In the rlllsge ttver end over again I
tohl the eiort fairly reveling la tlie
first bit of roman«» that had -»er *tlr
red the inofrii«my of my qttlr' I’fa
Ilf course there were a few III na
turvd aoula all«» tier I «red that Mrs
Kempton had known all along which
aide her brenl waa butter««! on. Imt na
this Idea iwemed to In* confined exclu
sively to th'Hie who hail In-fore times
pronounced her quixotic ami improv I
dent It did not greatly affect public
sentiment.
Senator Borden made Immediate ar
raugementa to retaove in« «later to bls
own home; but «he, |««>r «oul. In ul>-
Ject fear of her august sister lu lu m .
clung to the dear second cousin who
bad ho brlgiitem-d the years of her ad
verslty.
A compromise was at last effected.
Mrs. Kempton selling her little home
and removing to Anderson, where Mr.
Borden lived and where the fiimmi«
Anderson seminary was located. To
attend this school had long In-en Doi-
ly’s highest ambition, un ambition
which a grateful brother’s llls-rality
made It perfectly possible to gratify.
In a few days the little ripple of ex
citement that attended their departure
died away, leaving in its place only a
memory.
I missed Dolly sadly, feeling sure
that the duties and pleasures of her
new life would soon blut out all inter
est In her older and les« favored
friends.
I realized my mistake when, week«
afterward, I received a letter from her
which wrought tn my life a delightful
change.
“One of our teachers.” she wrote,
“has resigned, and Senator Borden has
secured the iioBition thus left vacant
for you. He knows how you helped and
encouraged me through the pink dress
ordeal, and he is very glad of tills op
portunity to show his appreciation of
your good sense and kindness.”
A day or two later this delightful
news was officially confirmed, and I at
once set alaiut my modest preparations
for departure. Just before I left I
called upon old Deacon Dudley and
found him not only sympathetic but
fairly Jubilant over my Improved pros
pectr.
“I gave you your first chance." said
he, “aud I presume to say I helped you
to your second one. 1 talked quite a
spell with the senator when lie was
here, and I gave you a first class ‘rec
ommend.' ‘She is young.' said 1. ‘ami
not great to look at, but she Is a mas
ter haDd at flggerln'.' ”
I thanked the old gentleman for bls
doubtful compliment with becoming
gratitude. Not for the world would 1
have pained his kindly heart by the
knowledge that anything so frivolous
as a pink frock had far more to do
with my good fortune than his unique
and well meant "recommend.”
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1 <«• »»tili with « f i»m
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i Rhv pl«rl ng re|«er»<»1rc •ml In om»
I in* kwl run»« 1 lient avet i i»nw *•11
the n« me 1 Inn* th* |m rt of an ohi
tn«n whenr ilanzbter the heroine. h««l
tieen atwbieteU I was euppoSMl to lie
blind, and my Strong acene waa In the
third act. when I went out Into a
snowstorm In search of my daughter
She na» lying In a drift, and as I hub
lib-i| aerosa the stag* I kept crying
‘Me che lid! W here la me rhe lid?'
“Well. It was early in tt»> sea »on and
the play waa the tirât attraction at that
th««ater. The seelie painter« had been at
Murk ami bail dropped several pulnt
brushes, hammer« and other articles
Into the sheet that held the anoMstortn.
As the Htage hands iu the tlie« shook
the «lieeta to make the snow come
out a couple of hammers came dowu
and Just mls««*il me by an Inch. 1 Mas
blind and didn't dare to look up. I>ut
when a monkey wrench Just grazed my
temple I had presence of mind enough
to yell: 'See yonder moon! The atortn
1« over!’ The stage bands took their
cue and let up on me. and the audience
never stoppisi to question how a blind
man could see yonder misin.”—Phila
delphia lteeord.
About Volcanoes.
Few persons have any Idea of the
prodigious quantity of lava and hot
ashes which a volcano in a state of
eruption can vomit in a few hours.
The matter which was discharged In
ltitib from Mount Etna and which
threatened to overwhelm Catania forms
a mass the extent of which has been
estimated as being not less than 1,000,-
000,000 cubic yards.
From tlie immense crater of Kilauea,
in Hawaii, there was vomited in 1840
during a single eruption a mass of lava
equivalent to fifty times the volume of
earth which It was necessary to remove
In order to form the Suez canal.
In 1N73 the Skuptar-.lokull, one of tlie
most redoubtable volcanoes In Iceland,
sent forth two rivers of tire, one of
which ran along a valley for eighty
miles, its depth along the entire dis
tance being thirty yards. Finally, it is
estimated that from the mass of stones
and ashes which were discharged in
1883 from Krakatoa could be formed a
mountain higher and wider than Mont
Blanc.
A b Old Time Remedy.
In the ice chest of a Germantown
residence there are always lying four
or live big keys. This is because the
nose of tlie little son of the house
bleeds every few days, and nothing
stops tlie hemorrhage like tlie dropping
a large, cold key down tlie child's back,
says tlie Philadelphia lteeord. He
squirms and cries out before the shock,
and then In a moment he is well, his
nose stops bleeding. A physician said
tiiat the cold key remedy for tlie hem
orrhage of tlie nose was as old, he sup
posed. as keys themselves are. “It is a
very good remedy.” lie went on. "and
its curative power Is due to the shock it
VIRCHOW AND HIS WAYS.
gives. But Isn’t it an odd thing to use—
■err Professor W m Blunt, bat He
a cold key? Almost as odd, to my mind,
Oaee Met Hla Match.
as the candle with which some persons
The late Professor Virchow was. In •allow their noses when they have a
his owu country at leant, almost as cold. But the candle remedy does no
famous for Ids excessive bluntness of good, so far as I can see, whereas the
apeecli as for Ills very remarkable men key remedy is one of the liest in the
tal attainments, «ays the Fhiladelphia business.”
Press. Often he spoke ho unfeelingly
to the students who sat under him In
A Baseball Game.
the lecture rooms that they have tieeii
Four wide ones in the third and Ho-
known to leave his classes and not re gan paraded!
turn. According to Berlin traditions,
Dooley tilted tlie pellet to the outer
one of the professor’s favorite replies most port precinct for a hassock and
to a wrong answer to one of hla ques Invested second citadel through Groo-
tloua was:
gin's insane heave.
“Certainly not. Any cook Mould
Jones’ agile mitt engulfed Smith’s
know better than that.”
towerer to loft garden, but failed to
On the other hand, he seemed to ap ferry it in before Hogan's extremities
preciate the spirit In some of hla stu soiled the rubber.
dents which prompted them to answer
Donovan jabbed a solitaire to left
him back In very nRich Ills own tone. pasture, stabling Dooley, but met his
Once when he was presiding In a very death purloining a bag. Huggins made
old and faded suit of clothes be turned three frantic lunges at tlie leather, but
suddenly upon a seemingly bashful Guff's saffron muff let him amble down
man sitting near him and asked;
tlie trail to tlie Initial roost.
“Do your eyes tell you the truth?
Duffy's steaming grasser to right
What color Is tbls coat of mine?”
meadow incinerated Guff's Angers.
Without an Instant's hesitation the
Doyle dunked safely to larboard, imt
young man rose and said: “I presume Brown's swift return of the globule
It waa once black. Now It Is any color contributed to Huggin's demise at the
except white.”
plate. Kansas City Independent.
That student was passed.
A
The Man Who IttfH.
For one Momau who dominates her
husband In China there are doubtless
nine of the approved oriental stripe of
humility. Nevertheless Chinese humor
ous literature abounds In references to
henpecked husbands. Professor Her
bert Allen Giles of the University of
Cambridge told one of these stories:
Ten henpecked husbands resolved to
form a society to resist the lni|sHiitlon
of their wives. The ten n-lves heard of
the plan and while the meeting for or
ganization was In progress entered the
ruorn In a body. Nine of the rebellious
husbands fled, but the tenth one re
tained hla place, apparently unmoved
by the unexpected visitation.
The ten wives, after smiling con
temptuously on the one man who re
mained. went back to their homes, well
content with the success of their raid.
The nine husband« tbererpun re
turned to their meeting. r««olve«l to
make the heroic tenth man the presi
dent of the society.
When they entered the room, how
ever. to Inform him of the honor. It
waa found that he was dead. He bad
died of fright.
Teo Patriotic.
Patrick had worked hard all his days,
but his sons bad spent his money for
him. and when he was too old for ac
tive work be Mas offered tlie position
of crossing tender at a small railroad
station.
He looked dubious as the duties of
the office Mere explained to him and
the meaning of the various flags was
clearly stated.
"In case of danger, with a train com
ing. of course you wave the red flag.”
said his friend, proceeding with his
explanation. A hard old hand grasped
his arm.
"Man. dear. It'll never do.” said Tat
rick, shaking bls bead solemnly. “I
could never trust tnesllf to remlmber to
wave a red flag whin there Maa u green
wan bandy.”
General Invitation.
The old story of the man who saw
on the rail of the organ gallery in a
little western church a placard bear
ing tlie words: “Don’t shoot the organ
ist. He’s doing the best he can.” has
lately been matched by another some
what like it.
A man recently returned from n min
ing region where one Sunday he at
tended a service in the only church for
miles around. As he entered the strains
of an organ, apparently in great dis
tress, reached his ears, and when he
was seated lie looked up to discover
M’bo the player was.
On the back of the parlor «irgan.
which st'wsl on the platform, was a
neatly lettered square of pasteboard
which read, “Come up and try it your-
■elf!”
Applicable.
A Sunday school superintendent in
talking to his pupils nlsmt cruelty to
animals said: “Only a coward would
abuse a creature that has no way of
protecting itself. Why, children. I
once knew a little boy who cut off a
calf's tail! Think of it took a knife
and cut the tail right off! Can any
one tell me a verse in the Bible that
would have taught this cruel boy that
he should not have cut off the calf's
tail? "
After a moment’s silence a small
I toy held up Ills hand and when asked
to quote his verse ventured. “What
God hath Joined together let no man
put asunder.”
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haw i«’ eaa «*f hhi h W n and
rerr ofiiginn
eptm •w« « f ■ hat !•
•Aron 80*1
amiHinf in »* 'll it tm
et*« dm | g «ni all H•nt «iti the lawn ami
«at wiflHh i dri nhlnf lent imnilM ami
1 platina lhat thet were ba»« atti Jim
mi waited • »ftlj up In the • hie of the
<»wlr In arPled hl« m»»e
•ent •
thrmiah a e•»t* ventent «lit. «aya ««nr
Diituh Animal«. Kye« an« ears fol
Ion*sl and. Iiln»head «»ti«-e within at th«-
Isick of tlie uti«il«pl* loll« rrvel'Ts, Jitu
my ante one tlemeudoua «uwar of that
kitol n bleb is luilf a auurt.
Tlie 1stndlttI fell t>a>'k in every diroe
lion, and the Itorne. withdrawing from
Ho* lent, laualied silently to liiiu»elf he
f<>re going Isick to his grass cropping
Jimmy's favorite amusement 1« that of
Nciitterilig u flock of sheep. When he 1«
feeillng with them ill tlie pasture, he
Milddenly stops eating and then dashes
among them, aemllng them «euddlng
over the lilllside. Then he stands watch
ing them untij they again settle to tlielr
iilldding and after a short lun< lieon of
III« own re|H*ats the pleasing diversion.
AltliiHigli thl« horse is the gentleat crea
ture in Hie world. It pleases him ex
ceedingly to frighten any one who lias
shown timidity in Ills presence.
Jimmy'« two mlatresae« harness him
without trouble or danger, imt lie de
lights in alarming one girl cousin who
visit« at the house. Hulldry fidgeting«
and nervous starts of her own were
enough to show Jimmy of what man
ner and temperament she was. and he
1« merciless in taking advantage of
that knowledge. If she enters the sta
ble where he stands accepting tlie har
ness in the most d«M-ile manner, he
opens Ills mouth, showing a wicked
row of teeth, ami makes a feint of snap
ping at her. She shrieks. Ills mis^*ss
scolds and reasons with him. and Inm-
my apparently Is then repentant.
FACTS ABOUT FEET.
The typical Irish foot Is flat, rather
broad and not usually long.
Tlie Frenchman's foot Is proverbially
long, narrow and well proportioned.
The Scotchman’s fis't Is high and
thick, strong, muscular and capable of
hard work.
The Tartar’s foot is short and heavy,
tlie fisit of a certain type of savage,
and tlie toes are all the same length.
The Englishman's foot is in most
cases short mid rather fleshy and not
as a rule as strong as proportionately it
should be.
Tlie Russian’s foot possesses at least
one 'peculiarity which Is worth notic
ing. The toes are generally "webbed"
to tlie first joint.
The Spaniard's foot Is generally
small and. thanks to tlie Moorish Idissl
which flows in the veins of most Span
iards. elegantly curved.
The lutest measurements zeem. to
show that America is In the process of
developing a race witli the smallest
feet among all the civilized nations.
Tlie Teutonic and .Scandinavian na
tions appear to have the largest feet,
Swedes, Norwegians and Germans
standing lu tills respet at the head of
tlie list.
Tlie Arab's foot is famous for its
high arch, whereby a true Arab may.
indeed, always lie known, tlie Koran
Haying tiiat a stream of water can run
under the foot without touching it.
Seemed to Have Got Out.
A Chicago man on liis summer vaca
tion went to a Wisconsin lake resort
and one day became engaged in conver
sation witli tlie proprietor. He com
mented on the attractiveness of tlie
surroundings and finally asked tlie ho
tel keep«*r how many acres there were
In the property.
“About forty," replksl tlie proprietor.
“I see there is another resort a short
distance north of you. Who owns
that?”
"The Wldder Simmons."
“You and she Join, do you not?"
The landlord's sunburned face turned
a shade or two redder.
"We’re expecting to next October,"
he said, “but I didn’t think anylsidy'd
found It out yet.”
French CoiFre.
Tlie delicious flavor which all travel
ers In France discover in the coffee of
that country Is got. It Is said, by the
ndditlon of a little butter and sugar
during the roasting process. To every
three pounds of roasting berries a ta-
bl«*sp<sinful «meh of butter and pow
dered sugar is addeil. These In melting
spread over the beans In a thin coat
ing, which hold« the aroma and con
tributes a caramel flavor that Is dell
clous anil distinctive.—Harper’s Bazar
A
Modern
Adonla.
Lady—Your partner has fainted. I
hear. How did that happen?
Officer—It Is quite simple. I danced
M’lth her three times In succession. The
great happiness was ti«> much of a
strain for her nerves. I am now tak
ing my departure lest I should do any
further damage.—From the German.
Friday 1« l.ocky*.
There Is luck in o«ld numbers. There
Is double luck In two <«ld numbers.
Friday Is the sixth day of the week.
Six Is the double of three, which is
not only an odd numlier, but one which
proverbially possesses a charm. There
fore Friday Is a doubly charmingly
lucky day.—Boston Advertiser.
The Rnsllah
Style.
Frank was learning to ride a horse
and one day somelssly asked him if It’
bounced him very bard when the horse
M’as trotting.
“Oh. not” he ansu-ered. "I don’t
bounce very hard. I stay up nearly all
the time.”- Little Chronicle.
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ToM'ne Rather absentminded. Isn't
he?
BroM'ne—Extremely so. Why. the
Wui'l l^oklag For That Ran.
Superintendent of the Railroad Com other night when he got home he k»ew-
pany—So you want a job as fireman, there was something he Mantetl to do.
but he couldn't remember Mliat it uas
eh?
until he had sat up over an hour trying
Applicant—Yes, sir.
Superintendent—I'll have to ask you to think.
ToMne-And did he finally remember
a few questions. How far la It to the
It?
north pole?
Browne—Yea; be discovered that be
Applicant—Gee whiz! If you’re go
ing to put me on that line, I don't had wanted to go to lied early.—Fhlla-
want the job.—ludianapolls News.
delphla Fress.
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At*
A
iMufl’h'In
l.l'-tmsM were taken ent far l.’JUrl
d..«s last yrar In Irrland the nnmmit
pa'd Iwlng I«!»« US
The emdefa tn Egypt la deerrotfinff
1 he lair«l «tatlstbs» ghe Tflfl aa the
total number of case«. I'liero hate
lex-ti U4i d«*atlis.
Twenty itara ago the total bltuml
ixkis coal output of the United Ktatva
was about ."«i.iaMi.isai tuna a Jeur.
wherosa now It la not far from !d0,-
Uat.UIlt*.
An order for 18.<»»» eight horse plows
to lie ums I for breaking lip the virgin
soil In Houtli Africa bus l>een received
by the Farquhar Agricultural work« nt
York. Fa.
German manufacturer« of machinery
have recently received orders for its)
lia-omotiveg. repreHcutlng a value of
tUJUU.tMM) marks, which will go to Siam,
Italy. India and Denmark.
A writer iu the Revue de Faris de
clares that many Frenchmen hope tiiat
some day Spain, the most fertile and
moHt ill govermst of European coutr-
tries, will become French soil.
General Andre, the French minister
of war, is seeking to improve the head
gear of the French army. Tlie present
headgear is considered to have con
tributed in no small degree to the many
recent cases of sunstroke.
Among the most interesting features
of southern Oklahoma are the remains
of the grass bouses formerly built by
the Wichita Indian«, who to a certain
extent keep up their novel mode of
architecture to the present day.
The criminal court of Itodez, Avey-
ron, France, lias Just put on record a
decision against two newspapers and
a doctor for calling one Lacombe a
Freemason, "using tlie term in an In
sulting and defamatory sense."
In the average wages paid to employ
ees the industry that stands highest
among the large undertakings is that
of smelting and refining, say« Muhin's
Magazine. Here tlie average for tlm
24,500 worker« is $052 per worker.
The report covering coffee mid tea
Importations for the last fiscal year
intensifies wliat was shown by tlie re
port for the year before namely, tiiat
we Americans are becoming the great
coffee drinking nation of the world.
Germany has a new university, Mun
ster, iu Westphalia, which now lias the
complete numlier of faculties. For
many years Munster was called an
“academy,” a» it liad only a double
theological faculty, Catholic aud Frot-
estant, aud a philosophical faculty.
Tlie strult of Cause, between Cai>e
Bretou and the mainland of Nova Sco
tia, is to be bridged. The task is an
immense one, involving great engi
neering dltlieulties, and the outlay Is
about $5,000,000. Tlie bridge will be
a cantalever, with a spun of 1,800 feet,
the longest in the world.
While in New York Prince Henry
saw and admired a keyless clock
which was in course of manufacture.
It was the first timepiece of its kiud.
The prince ordered one, which he will
present to his brother, the kaiser. It
will ruu continuously for a year with
out the change of battery.
l’olice pensions In Chicago have been
cut down 20 per cent in compliance
with tlie law vrtiich provides that they
shall be scaled if necessary to meet
the condition of tlie fund. The pen
sioned widows of |iolicemen arc much
distressed over the cut, many of them
having large families to support
,
Shad were very scarce in Connect!
cut waters this summer, but appeared
In large numbers in the Ohio river, n
profitable cutch having been made
within five miles of Cincinnati. Before
1870 Bhad were never caught in the
Ohio river. The first one taken in that
year was considered such a curiosity
that it was sent to the Smithsonian in
stitution.
An English physician who has been
making a study of diseases in Alaska
reports that cerebro spinal meningitis
Is very prevalent, scorbutus is wide-
spread, rheumatism is frequent, pneu
monia Is almost unknown, strange to
say, and insanity is by no means rare.
Ills re|iort indicates that a vigorous
physique is required to resist the Alas
kan climate.
A research steamer belonging to the
Norwegian government recently car
ried on In the North sen some experi
mental fishings which yielded impor
tant results. In three days 117 halibut
and 300 large cod were caught at a
depth of 200 fathoms, thus proving
the existence of large quantities of
these fishes at a time of the year when
they are not to be found on the coast
of Norway.
The Botanical Gazette states that tlie
magazine known as “Contributions to
the United States National Herba
rium” has been transferreil from the
department of agriculture to the Na
tional museum, with an Increased ap
propriation of Í7.R00, thus enabling the
museum to hire an editorial assistant
and an artist and to republish certain
valuable numbers that have long been
out of print.
The skull of a prehistoric man was
dug up on a farm near Lansing, Kan.,
some weeks ago under well defined
strata of earth and rock. The scien
tist« who have examined It are of the
opinion that the man to whom It be
longed llve«l during the glacial period,
probably 35.000 years ago. If this is so,
the "Lansing skull,” as It lias been
named, furnishes the first tangible
proof of the existence of prehistoric ,
man in America, though such remains
have been fuund iu various places iu
Europe. ________________
Range nt Vlalon.
Standing on the highest mountain-
say at n height of 26,008 feet, which is
slightly over five miles above son level
—on a clear day a man can see to a
distance of 2<«) miles. To s«*e objects
at n distance of 100 miles the observer
must lie standing nt a height of 0.W7
feet aliove tlie level of the sen. The
rule Is that the distance In miles at
which an object on the earth's surface
may tie seen Is equal to the square root
of one and a half times the height of
the observer in feet aliove sea level,
allowance lieing made for the effect of
atmospheric refraction.
Oiiihdes and
Brinhi's Disease.
Interview
11h Itlwnrel Mhorl
of the M«n Pran%l»«;o Cull.
Mr Ftlward Short, counectml with th«* bus}
n«»** d,-|*Brlu.» lU ot tbs Sau Frsucl»«-,* llxll
interviewed:
q —You are re|**>rl.-4 lo bain t*«eii curmt oi
dlabete«»
A —That 1« right
M —Are you sure It was dlat*ete«t
A —I was n*je«-tml tor iusurai«-«-, anil later
fulling rapidly, <>ur physb-vaii lol.t uit* I bad
dial*--)«« uud lo put my aflulrs in *-h»p,
Q —Have more than one phv«U-iau!
A — Yes I had another coutlriu 11. lie. Us*
aald 1 could not five long I hail dropped from
•Ml lo IX* pounds aud was very wean
A Ueigh
lair told un* of the t'ullou Compound
Q How long did you hate to lulu* itf
A —Al*.*ut a year helore 1 was perfectly well
q —Did your physicians then lest for m ar*
A
llolh did. lirtlh reported normal
Tiler
were very greatly surprised at my recovery, fol
they *
1 a*l mid mg diabetes was Im uraule
Q —Know of auy other euresf
A —S* veral 1 told my trleud. William Mur
tin, air S I* conductor of A*ioekiou. alxnri it.
He had diabetes, and was »Unit to give up tils
israition w lieu 1 told liiin. He got tbosauie re
sults 1 did. aud was well when killed a year or
so later.
Q.—Auy others?
A.—I tohl William Huwklus of the Custom
House aud Captain Hubbard of the Irarkentinu
S N. Castio, upou hearing they had diabetes
Both of them were cured
I al-o tohl a neir'lt
lior who hud dropsy, lu a mouth Itwusolliu
luuted. I i nn t recollect ail I’ve tohl
y —Kill it fall In any ea-t-f
A.—Not one II Is a i*osllive cure in Bright’s
Pls.-use and Diabetes. Go over and see Haw
k ns and ho will tell you the same thing
Medical works agree that Bright’« Disease
and Diabetes are lucurable. Imt «7 per i-eut. are
positively recover ug under the Fullon Com
pounds .Common forms of klduey complaint
offer tint short resistance,! Price. «1 tor tlie
Bright’s Disease an I II 50 for the Diabetic
Com|«>itnd. John J Fulton Co., t-yi Montgoni
cry street, San h’rancisr-o. sole compounders,
l-'reo tests made for patients. Desertpuru
pamphlet mailed free.
Save the Baby.
The mortality among
babies during thb
three teething years is something frightful.
The census of HHto shows that about one ill
••very seven succumbs.
The cause
is
apparent.
With
baby's
bones hardening, the fontanel (optring lu the
nkull) closing up and its teeth forming, all
these coming at once create a demand for
bone material that nearly half the little
systems are deficient in.
The result Is
I eevishness, weakness, sweating, fever, diar
rhoea, brain troubles, convulsions, etc., that
prove terribly fatal The deaths in I! hhi under
three years were 304,988, to say nothing of
the vast number outiftde the big cities that
were not reported, and this in the United
States alone.
When baby begins to sweat, worry or cry
out in sleep don't wait, and th«* need Is
neither medicine nor narcotics.
What the
little system Is crying out for Is mote bone
material.
Hweetman's Teething Food sup
plies it. It has saved the lives of thousands
*»f babies.
They begin to Imptow within
forty-eight hours.
Here is what physician^
think of it.
2984 Washington St..
San Francisco, Jun«* 2, 1902.
Gentlemen—I am prescribing your food In
the multitude of baby troubles du«* to Im
peded dentition. A large percentage of in
fantile Ills and fatalities are the Yesult of
slow teething. Your fo<nl supplies what tlie
deficient system deiuends. and I have bad
surprising success with it. .n scores of cases
tills diet, given with their regular food, lias
not failed to check the infantile distresses,
Several of the more serious eases would, I
feel sure, have b«’»*n fatal without it. It can
nit be tot- qui< kl\ br-.’Ught to the attention
of tlie mothers of the country. It Is an ab
solute necessity.
L. C. MRXDEIi, M. I).
Petaluma, Cab, September 1, 1902.
Pear Sirs—1 have just tried the teething
food In two cases and in both it was u su< -
• ess. One was a very serious case, so erltl-
cal that it was brought to me from another
city for treatment. Fatal results were feared.
In three days the baby ceased worrying ainl
■ •«•innienced eating ami Is now well. Its action
in this ease was remarkable. I would ud-
VlM you to put it In every ding st. n- n thin
city. Yours,
I. M PHOCTOR, M. IX
Sweetman's Teething Food will carry baby
safely and comfortably through the most <lan
gcrous period of child life. It render« lane-
ing of the gums unnecessary. It is the safest
plan and n blessing to the baby to not wait
for symptoms but to commence giving it the
hurth or fifth month.
Then all the teeth
will come healthfully, without pain, dis
tress or lancing. It Is an auxiliary to tlielr
regular diet and easily taken. Price 50 cents
(enough for six weeks), sent postpaid on re
ceipt of price. Pacific Coast Agents, Inland
Drug Co., Mills Building, San Francisco.
Iler Complaint.
Jane M-n« a patient in ofii* uf the
large public hiixpitals. She boasted a
cough M’hlch Mas more than suspis tisi
to lie n "fake” cough rather than
bronchial or pulmonary.
The kindly young physician In
charge of the ward alloM’eil her some
harmless remedies. One day he «aid.
to her:
“Ah, Jane, I fear you are a bad case
of hypochrondrla!"
“Is that It. docther?" said Jane,
much impressed.
The next morning there »lie was
again, asking for her little dose.
"I’m very bad M’itli it tlie day. doc
ther.”
“With what?” asked the doctor.
“Will what ye were mimin' for me
yestiddy,” «In* replied. “It gave in,* lio
peace at all last night.”
An Item In llinlanil.
lie M’as cnttlpg an item from a news
paper.
“It tells how a house M as robbed, and
I want to show It to my wife,” lie ex
plained.
"What good will that do?” a friend
Inquired.
"A M’liole lot.” was the reply. "You
see. this house was robbed while the
man was at church with Ills wife."
"Say!" exclaimed the friend excited
ly. “you haven't got a dupli, ate copy of
that paper, have you?"—Chicago Cost.
Helpful llaMhand.
Cicero Moke—I came to tole yo.’
ma'am, dat Lucy Brown, who done
leabe yo' ylstiddy. aln' gwlne lib out no
ino', 'kase she married me today.
Mrs. Hanskeep Indeed! Well?
Cicero Moke—Well. I t'ouglit mebbo
yo' might let her do yo' wazliin’. I'm
a ilrummln' up trade for her dis morn-
In’. Philadelphia Press.
One
Live
Mnn
Wunteil.
“Is your company for ‘Hamlet' com
plete?”
“Yea," answered Mr. Stormington
Barnes. "All 1 want is a good, live
young man for the glm«t.”— Washing
ton Star.
Taking the world ns n whole. 25 i « t
cent die before they reach the age uf
seventeen.
Experience worries more men than It
teaches. Chicago News.