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tvouKt not nave recognia«*a its vaiue Two days' work along this line coo- vliK-.-d him of tbe uselessness of bls ef forts, and be became despairing. Why was It. be reasoned to himself, as be sat ou the humble bed under tbe roof, that be c«uld not get a chance to show what be could do? Ami the next day waa New Year's. What hallowed memories were conjured up by tliat name! They would miss blui at tbe old farmhouse in Cayuga county on the morrow. He could not w>ite home for money, because that would be an ac knowledgtnent of defeat. Hls relatives expected great things of him. And there waa Nellie, tbe blue eyed girl, to whom be was a veritable Hlr Galahad. What would, she say wbeu she beard that all those lieautlful tales which he read to her In tbe orchard bad been re fused by every newspaper of standing In New York? Then Robinson burled hls face tn hls pillow and went to sleep hungry, for only 10 cents remained of hls $20. In the effort to dispose of hls manu script Robinson had visited every news- P>i|wr office In tbe city except one. This newspaper, by reason of Its acknowl edged superiority over all the others, had frightened the young author. He did not have the confidence to think that be could write anything fit for its columns. But now that he was liter ally driven to the wall Robinson re solved to beard the Tark row literary lion In hls den. and If he failed be would go back to tbe farm and milk tbe cows. Hls breakfast consisted of two rolls and a cup of coffee, leaving him a cash capital of 5 cents. Before starting on hls forlorn hope be picked out from among bls manuscripts a short descriptive sketch of a mountain brook. It was the gem of his collec tion. In glowing language he had pic tured the rippling cascades, the silvery IKXils. the kaleidoscopic trout, the trees whispering overhead, together with all tbe light and color of the woodland. .This was the little brain child upon which he had expended more time than u[H>n any other. He was satisfied that If ft were rejected lie could do no bet ter and that he was indeed a failure. How gingerly he went tip the staircase leading to the editorial rooms! With what timorous glances his eyes roamed over the dusty apartment which had sheltered so many men of genius! And Ills voice was scarcely audible as he said to the office boy: "Can 1 see the managing editor?” “Certainly, sir. Come right in.” Wonder of wonders! A courteous office boy! Nhaklng In every limb, he approach ed the nutoerat behind hls rosewood desk. • -< “Well, Mr. Robinson, what can I do for you?" said he cordially. “I culled to offer a short sketch for publication In your paper,” replied Robinson In a voice strengthened by hls kindly reception. “Ah, thank you!” said the grent man, taking the manuscript from Robinson's trembling lingers and thrusting It .into a pigeonhole. “Glad to get It. sir; glad to get It.. Alwnys looking for new Ideas fpotn you young men. Good day, sir.” The editor turned to his mail, and Robinson walked down stairs with Ilia head erect and hls shoulders squared. He did not know that, even though his sketch might be accepted. It would probably be two weeks before It would be printed, and then there would inter- ■ »>•*. ■ * •' OBINRON had worked bis way through Cornell university ami bad been graduated with bom». Having Inherited a taste for literature, he decided to go to New York and wlu fame and fortune with hls pm. To a young and ardent man thia prospect la a very pleasant one. lu the effort a few men have suc ceeded, but many more have failed for the reason that tbe road Is more stony than the famed rocky road to Dublin. But Robinson's heart lieat high ami strong. He knew be would have tc work, but be was willing. Hix ambi tion was to become an editorial writer like Horace Greeley or Henri Roche- foyt- W’hen Robinson arrived In New York city tn Decemlier, 18—, he bad one still of clothes and two ten dollar notes. Having passed through an uppreiitlce- shlp In economy at college, In* knew the value of a dollar, and so he decided to make his cash capital go us far as lie could. It was tbe first time he hail ever visited a great city, and a feeling of inexpressible loneliness came ovei him as he looked Into the faces of thou sands of men and women and wonder ed why he did not recognize any of them- Robinson had lieen reared In an environment of green trees and run nlng brooks, where nature smiles upon man. But to the country boy'o percep tlon the tall buildings seemed to frown forbiddingly iqxiu him. and the noise of Innumerable vehicles sounded dis cordantly In his ears. Tugging hls old carpetsack, contain Ing Ills clothing, a copy of Shake speare, a Bible and a thesaurus, b« walked up Broadway in search of u lodging house. He was amazed at tiis bustle and activity, tbe Indifference ol every man for hls neighbor and at th< Indications on every hand of wealtt and proH[writ,v. Up the great thorough ‘ fare he wandered, looking for h home hut finding no renting place until he arrived In Harlem. Here, 'lu a quiet side street, he secured a hall bedroom on the top floor of a tenement house by paying $1.00 In advance. This Uttlf room, perched lip on the eighth floor Just under the eaves of the building contained a small lied, a washstaud and one chair. Thoroughly exbaustec by his long walk. Robinson lay dowt and fell asleep. Hls first Impulse on arising in th« morning wus to examine this great city of which be had heard so much to visit the public buildings ami otliet objects of Interest, but he repressei this Inclination and began to work As Is the case with many young met; ot like Inclination, Robinson waih )U Ideirllst, a dreamer. He delighted II writing little prose and poetical etch Ings of scenery and - of hitman etuo tlons. The publishers of newspaper» hove learned by experience that lueil readers do not.care for tills khat ol writing. They prefer stories of crime murder, burglary, arson. In short, they want tlie pepper of ^enxat lonu lism Robinson, unfortunately fot hls.pocket did not take notice of tbe direction ol public taste. Day after day he worked away along ideal lines until at the end of a week he bad a dozen sketches and poems ready. Then be discovered that half of bls money was gone anc be must Bell some of Ills work in ordet to replenish hls pocketlxiok. Fillinti hls pockets with his stories and iioemx he started to walk the seven miles in tervenlng lietween hls lodging lions« and that Mecca of journalistic genius 1’ark row. This Is the street where ul the great metropolitan papers are Io cated, the street which never sleeps Under Its sidewalks mammoth presset are always In motion day and night There gaping crowds congregate t< read the bulletins of news from al over tbe world. ’Tin the sjat whets more American history 1ms tieen re <-orded than any other in the country 'TIs a cruel place for a stranger with out friends or money to be found, anc He approached the autocrat. here it was that Iloblimoti took Ills vene still another week before he would first lesson In the sale of manuscript Robinson was of a refined mid sens! be paid, and in his blissful Ignorance live nature. By the time he had met he walked up Broadway, elate, Impas three office Ixiys who were hired to sioned. The sidewalk was soft as vel - keep Just such men ns be awBy from vet to his feet O youth, luminous with promise, the editors he wns very much diseom- aged, and yet lie felt that Ills work bright with the rosy hue of expectan whs good. And so as he trudged back cy! Again Robinson went supperless to to Ills room lu Harlem with his pre clous manuscripts still In Ills pocket bed. But what a small matter that be took heart of grace and rexolvi-d to seemed to him! Tomorrow his sketch start out again on the morrow. The would lie in the greatest paper In Amer resolution was strengthened by a band ica. And he tell asleep nnd dreamed organ grinder who caiue under hla win of beefsteak and onions and the blue eyed Nellie. In the morning he was so dow and played “Walt Till the Clouds eager to get down stairs that he scarce Roll By.” But It was uphill work. In ly waited to tie his shoestrings. In his after years Robinson could not remem hurry and excitement be gave his last her the various Incidents of that event nickel to the newsboy and forgot the ful week, so crushed ami dlsapixiinted change. lie opened the paper with was he. It was not lieeauxe the ed shaking hands and glanced down the itors were unkind to hlin. but they hud first page. There was some unimpor no time to Is* sympathetic. “Bring us tant matter about a famine In India rews," they said to him. “and we will which had killed a thousand men, a print It and pay you liberally. We stabbing affray In Philadelphia In have no space for literature.” which a man was horribly mutilated In the cource of a week Robinson and seven children left fatherless, a vlaltml the editorial rooms of nearly fire In Pittsburg which had killed six every newspaper office In New York teen girls, but hls story was not there! -■ city, but he did nrt dtepn-je of «. 4!«c He looked over the editorial page, of hls work. Ills nearest approach, to where the gre-t editor had launched an acceptance came from mi editor hls keenest invectives against munici who offered to print some of tils st» pal abuses, and there, too. were those rles provided he did not ask fol- pay brtth» pr.nsgr'.nhs. wJbov w«4 had eho-!- ‘With um’onscioiia irony'Kolilniom said lenged hls admiration before. IIow he needed money to buy brend. but psltry they seemed today! The other when he became famous-which was a pages contained the usual record of a certainty—ho would lx* glad to furnish coming war In Europe, etc., but hls a few specimens of hls genius. By sketch was not there. Then hope died, this time Robinson's money was be and a great rage filled bls breast. The coming scarce, and be decided to take hand of every man seemed to be the advice of the editors nnd hunt for against him. lie clinched hie teeth news. It is a fact peculiar to the and hU hands ami hived like a mad aewspajier business that news is sel man and started on a run of seven dom got by searching. An nlile report miles down Broadway to kill the edi er might start out tomorrow to limit tor. aimlessly tor news and not run across Hls stomach was empty as a pawned au Item in a week. But lot him visit wedding ring.. Hls eyes were blood police headquarters, where all tbe shot. He ran blindly as a borne runs crime of a great city Is chronicled, or from fire. In two miles hunger, rage the courts of Justice, or shipping of and exhaustion forced him to stop. He fices. or the headquarters of any great sat down on a curbstone until he had Industry, and hla search Is likely to tie recovered his breath. Then he stag rewarded. But Robinson did not know gered on. By the time he reached the this. Resides, lielng untrained, be did newspaper office bls reason had return Lot know what the word "news” meant ed. He had walked so long on the hard la the vernacular. If he hnd run acrons pavement that the soles of hls shoes au Item of International Importance, he ' were worn through, and at every step tbe balls of bis feet touched tbe stones His heart acbad, bls head ached, hls feet were bleeding, and be wanted to bury bis bead in his mother's lap. "Helto!” said tbe managing editor, looking up from Ills desk at,tbe pa thetic flgure standing liefortr him. "You're the little chap who was here yesterday, eh! Yes, yes. Walt a min ute”’ He took the manuscript in hls hand aa a practical gambler might take a pack of cards. He glanced down each page with what seemed Incredible swiftness to tbe palpitating Robinson. Within two minutes lie bad taken In all the beauty of Imagery, all tbe grace of expression, nil tbe enrmarks of con scientious effort. Till'll lie looked up at the pallid face beside him, tbe Idooil- sliot eyes, tlie hard lines about the tense mouth, end a look of deep ti'd- derneaa and compassion came Into Ills eyes as he said, gently as a woman: “My dear tx>y. that is Just the kind of stuff we want. If yeu have any more of U, brlug It along.” Robinson gas|>ed and turned away, for tbe cisterns of Ills heart were lx*- ginnlng to leak. And as be went the editor looked around the comer of Ills desk. He saw the worn shoes, tbe tat tered coat, and he shouted: “Come back, Robinson. You’ve for gotten something.” And be pine: d in tbe young man's band a small piece of glazed paper. Robinson reached the sidewalk in a dream, but when be had pulled him self together he looked at tbe. slip of paper and read tbe following words: • Naw Y ear ' s D at . Jan. 1, 1»—. Cashier. New York ----- : Pay to Oeorge Robinson the sum of 110 on account of sketch called "A Moun tain Brook.” ------------- . Managing Editor. That night Robinson's supper con sisted of two pounds of fried bam, a plateful of old fashioned John Brown fried iMitatoes, half a pumpkin pie and two cups of coffee. As he sat back in his chair and lit hls cigar the con sciousness that it was New Year's day came to him In full force. He smiled as be reflected that be bad not killed the editor. How bright and happy the waiters all seemed! The tarnished ta bleware glistened in the gaslight. The world seemed a very good place to live In. after all. A peripatetic piano stop ped In front of the restaurant. The Instrument was out of tune, nnd the tune was uneven, but no orchestra had ever played such seraphic harmony as the first selection, "Walt Till the Clouds Roll By.” A PLATE OF SOUP. Ita Egewt I'poa Geaeral Scott's Pros* Ideatlal Asplratlou*. Serving dinners in courses Is com paratively a modern fashion, first in troduced in diplomatic circles In Wasb- Uigton and Imitated from France. Up to the date of President Folk's admin istration the eburse ill liner among Americans bad made no further prog ress than that of serving tiah ami soup separately. Soup was reguriled aa such * foreign frippery that a note written by General Winfield Scott, In which be explained that lie was "Just sitting down to a busty plate of soup,” cov ered him with such ridicule as to ma terially contribute to hla defeat as a candidate of tbe presidency. Soup In the early days of the repub lic was considered as food for Invalids or [Hxir people only. Later, when tbe soehiI splendors of tbe court of the Empress Eugenie attracted rich Amer icana In flix'ks to Paris. French table manners and customs pushed the old Engltali dinner fashions to tbe wall. It Is doubtful, however. If soup ever found a place on the dinner table of the wealthy Maryland or Virginia planter, unless green turtle, which was really a stew, might l>e so called. The object of an old time dinner par ty was to eat, whereas that of tbe course dinner Is to delight the eye rath er than the palate, and yet who will say that the sight of a well filled din ner table where an array of silver cov ered dlslies gives forth a bouquet of appetizing odors fails to make an agreeable Impression on nil the senses? —Lippincott's Magazine. n Her Own Room. “Talking altout being lost,” says th? girl who lias been visiting her grand parents In the old family homestead— “I have been lost in the city and lost In the country, but never was there anything so horrible as lielng lost in my own room. It was a very queer room I had at grandmamma's any way—one of those rooms from which a flight of stairs leads down; rooms such as arc only to lie seen In old houses. It blew up cold the first night I was In the house, and I got up to close the window. The room, i of course, was pitch dark. In getting back from the window to the lied I lost myself. I had not the slightest idea in what direction to turn, and I knew that if I was not careful I should go down those awful stairs. There was noth ing to do but sit down on the floor and howl for some one to come and find me, and that was Just what I did. If grandiia and grandmamma had not liven unusually normal Individuals. I should have frightened them to death. As it was, they only thought I had a nightmare, brought candles him ! loeat- ad me nnd showed me my way to bed again.” Gmi-lWo« fn Xbo«t.------- ■■ The other day a solitary snort smart hls gun under ills arm, was waixlerlng down a country lane In Inverness-shire when be met a small laiy making for tbe sThtxu. “I say, my boy." he remarked, “Is there anything to shoot down here?” Tbe boy looked around for a moment and then answered with eagerness: “Aye, there’s a skulemaloter cornin’ owre the hill!"—Loudon Answers. Frsfeesor Was .Tatla« Till»«*. “Wasn't it a terrifying experience." asked his friend, "when you loot your foothold and went glidlug down tlx* mountain side?" “It was exciting, but extremely Ln ►.•resting," said the college professor. "I could not help noticing all the way town with what absolute accuracy I was following along the line of least resists net- "-Chicago Tribune. Werth While. She- I should like to know what good your college education did you? H*—Well, It taught me to owe a lot of money without being annoyed by It. VERBAL ALIASES. i i WORDS THAT GET TOO FAMILIAR TC 6UIT SOME TASTES. The »cieatlde Fad •« ClolUa« Old Thla^e 1» daw Tt'R*-*»*»* Weeds the MM»i»«s •* whieh Ara Oaa- muslx Mlessaee«*»«*- SPOILING A SCENE. Aa lulgtsi That Eoge« Marg À». deraoa's Straloia« After avalisas. Did you ever hear Mary Anderson's pet story of how she was cured, of her love of realism? In a big drama In which this great actri ouce took part the heroine In a acene of Intense emotlou Is made to ex claim, “Hark. I bear the wheels of car riage«!” Now. It was easy enough to obtain the effect of wheels ou gravel, bqt no resource of the stage mechanism was adequate to imitate tbe stamping of the feet of horses ns they were drawn up at the door. Every device was ex hausted when a bright Idea occurred to tbe actress herself. It was that a donkey should be hired to trot up and down behind tbe scenes on gravel laid for tbe occasion. This was done, It nd at rehearsal all went well. Tbe illusion was iierfect. The first night came. The heroine gave the cue The wheels were heard, but they stopped, ami the rest was si lence. A pause, r.nd again the actress siMike her words. A terrible scuttling began and then “Hee-haw. hee-haw,” In stentorian tones from the back of the stage as the indignant donkey protested vigorously against bls 111 treatment by energetic carpenters and supers. It was one of-the most serious situations of the play, yet audience atid actors Joined In ¡laroxysms of mirth until the tears were streaming down their checks. Wlieu the report was recently elrcu lated that a prouilueut public Bian had lost his life through aecideutulty lu haling u quantity of earbou dioxide, the Ulan lu the street began at once In qitlrlug what curlxiu dioxide was. A» a matter of fact, earbou dioxide is merely unollier name for carbonic acid gas,- one of the products of com bustion and a constituent of atmos plieric air. » : Cai boule ackl gas Is kuown by sev eral different names, as, for Instance, carbon dioxide, cai lxiuk- oxide and cur- book) anhydride. < 'oiisuiupiion as a name for a terri ble and widespread disease is known and mnlerstood by practically every limn, woman and child In England. Lui the medical fraternity, ever on the liMikout for something new in the way of professional nouieucluture, elected some years back to cull it phthisis, and then Just when that unapellable word begau to be known and recog nized they evolved yet another—tuber culosis. And as with consumption so with moat other complaints. A quarter of a century ago even eminent physicians A Bold Scotchman. were content to speak of ¿imallphx, of The late czar of Russia was one night typhoid fever, of lockjaw. Today they playing a game of whist at Homburg, are called vqriola, enteric aud tetanus and the Prince of Wales and several respectively. of his friends were of the party. Among A doctor when giving evidence'before those friends was Bir James Macintosh, an ignorant east end Jury the other a well known Ixiu vlvant of tbe eight day said that the Immediate cause of ies and nineties. Sir James was one of death was "a violent and prolonged those blunt, dowurlght, rough spoken fit of combined epistaxis and stomator Scotchmen tvlio didn't know fear of rhagia.” It would, one would think, God or man. liuve been far easier for him to have In tlie midst of the game Sir James s|xiken of u bleeding at the nose and called out to the czar, “You've re mouth, and he would at all events have voked." Everybody’s blood ran cold. had the satisfaction of making himself Tbe Prince of Wales kicked the Scotch understood. man under the table, and the czar, .Most people uow living can remem blushing and confused, exclaimed In her the time when bacteria were known bewilderment-. “Revoked! Why. I nev generically as auilualculie— a not very er did such a thing In my life!” But strictly scientific definition, perhaps, Sir James persisted, anil the monarch but one easily understandable, and cou- whs proved to be In tbe wrong, where- veylug, moreover, a distinct Idea to upou Sir James replied to tlie observa any one of ordinary education aud in tion of the czar, “I dare say you’ve of telligence. ten revoked, your majesty, but thia Is For that very reuson, doubtless, tbe tbe first time you were ever told so.” title In question was voted out of date and old fashioned anil the word "bacil Riat Trees of Florida. li” was substituted. This means, liter It Is difficult oven to guess at the age ally, "little sticks,” certainly a most of the ancient live oaks, but some of novel definiUon. but one that scarcely them must number centuries, and the strikes the average lay mind as lielng oldest and greatest of them all is a either lucid or suitable. Nevertbeleoa, monarch of the forest, with its outer It was accepted, aud at last became branches sweeping the ground in a cir familiar to the uiau in the street. cle 120 feet across, with limbs as great That of course coil hl not lie tolerat as ordinary trunks of trees and bearing ed. Imagine a bacteriologist using a a garden of aerial ferns and air plants word which conveyed any meaning to upon tlielr bark. This venerable tree anybody outside hls own charmed cir Is supposed to be the largest live oak cle! The Idea is both degrading aud in Florida. Enormous grapevine trunks preposterous; so he set to work forth rise sinuously from the ground and lose with and Invented a whole host of ter themselves aiuld the quarter acre of ritlc verbal aliases. foliage that crowns this tree. The sap He called them for example, schlz- lings that once gave them support have omyeetes, neuromuskelzellen, megacuc- disappeared loug years ago, their only el and ixilymorphomiclear leucocytes, record being the angles and curves of as well as half a ii u nd red other things; grapevine stem to’ which they lent while for the chemical siiltstances in their transient aid to climbing sky- cidental to the science be Invented such ward.—Country I-ife In America. delightful terms ns “tetrabydropara- methyloxyqulnollne” and “tetrametbyl- So Easy Too. dia m Ido-iriphenyl'Carblnol-oxii late.” Suppose your wife—it is a wild 8up- The craze, tix>, Is getting commoner position of course, but let us just Im among other than scientists. Take tbe agine it for once—set up her own Judg word "reeking." tor Instance, and ask ment against yours in some vital mat your friends what they understand by ter. Try this way out of the difficulty. It. ‘Reeking?” one will say. "Why, Say to her: reeking means dripping with moisture, "My dear, you know that my Judg soaked with wet." You will derive ment Is above criticism, for I had tbe some amusement from bls surprise inspired wlaiom to select you from when you tell him that reeking means among the many, but you, on the other "smoking, steaming.” A chimney can band, cannot place absolute reliance reek. When a horse reeks with mois upou your judgment If, after accepting ture, It is because Its Hanks smoke and me, you find yourself wavering as to steatn. your confidence in my ability to direct The change from tbe real meaning to our ways.” that given It In |>opulai'. present day You will, readily see that a wife in phraseology can easily be ttaeed. Any wtedotii caiiuot protest against such a thing very wet will reek lu frosty diplomatic assertion of domestic lead weather; so the wetness lius been as ership. sumed to be tbe real characteristic of A Clever Cat. reek A y ng lady bookkeeper has been in Then there is "lurid,” which nine people out of ten use in an entirely the «bit for some time of glviug the wroug sense. Ask a man wliat color office cat a piece of meat for Its lunch lurid Is, and be may answer correctly, every day. Precaution is taken to lay but the chances are that be will say, a piece of pa|>er under the meat to "Red flame, orange or bright yellow." avoid greasing the door. The other day Of course, lurid means smoky or dull at lunch hour, when theje was no meat, color. London fog is lurid. Thick, suf pussy begged for some In her most In telligent fashion and at last, going to focating smoke Is lurid. Lurid and livid are ulrnost synony the wastebasket, dragged forth her uious. Lurid flaiueq are flames choked regular paper tablecloth fend laid It and hidden by smoke. A lurid sunset properly for the meat. Is not a brilliant one. but one dull and Hls Loss Walt. gray and cheerless. Of course, tlie use of verbal aliases “Grandpa, how old are you?" “I atn eighty-seven years old, my lit Is not an absolutely new departure. It Is only that we of this generation In tle dear.” “Then you were born eighty years our wild strivings after uovelly have so enormously iucreased and multiplied before I was?” “Yes. my little girl.” them. The taste of our grandfathers “What a long time you bad alone aud great-grandfathera lay rather in the direction of using over and over Walting for me!”—Current Literature. again two or three long nnd uncommon Words. Rrasva.kla Ks.I.B.tl... Thus bouorlticabHItudluitatibus. as a Customer—You charged me $14 for nynonym of fame, eminence, occurs this one garment? I think that's pretty and recurs with almost depressing reg high. nlarity In the plays of old pre-Eliza Tailor—Well, the bill, as I made It out bethan dramatists and is even used by at first, was for $13. but that is such Ebakespeare on occasion. an unlucky number I thought you'd It wa« D-rt!y ! b rldlcuk of Gre-siiiy rather pay a dollar more. — Chicago custom of using this and other s'mlbir Tribune. - - - ■ aTiotic verbal doubles, which bad sur Kln«*ess Breaaht Tears. vived lu part even until bis time, that Mother—oil. yjra. m*el Jw! ycn Ilabelals makes Pantagrue^ speak of. nioriauiuoriaeverzengirTzequoquemor making your brother cry. Algernon—No, mummy; I'm not. I’m gasachaquevezinemaffretiding my poor •ye" and ask angrily of Mr. Mauhonnd ouly sharing my cod liver oil with him, whether it wns not enough to wot you said was so nice.-Washington Star. have "morcrocasttbezastcverestegrlge Mgoscopapondrlllated us all in our up Borne of the people who think they per members, but you must also n|tply such uiorderegrlppiatabrrofrelucbam- were born to command do not discover burdurecnquelurintlmpanlments to om their mistake until they get married.— Pack. shinbones?”—Loudon Tit-Bits. Gifted CaareraatlaaallBt. ‘Slip hag wonderful con versa t Iona 1 jowers.” said .Miss Cayenne. "But she doesn't talk a great deal.” "No; I never knew any one who showed such discretion In tbe selection 3f tilings to be left unsaid." What It Was Lika. Miss Boatonwlck—Did yon go to the Wagner concert? Mr. Poker—I did. Miss B.—What was It like? Mr. P — Like Browning set to music. —Town and Country. Treasury figures show 'deposits in th« Ba« Tbey ■•<» 1*»s • LHtle. “Of course, clothes don't make the tanks and trust concerns of the coun try aggregating $H,.T0U,<MMLWÄ, or about •tan.” • i .. ; .. » „ , $IOK per capita. The Total dr Available fTertalfily oof.” cash lu the country 1" something mon “At tbe same time, if you have a 11 urn $2.."s»i.'"Si.<*Mi. or leas than $30 per new suit you'd better put It oq when cnultu. you go out to ask for ermilt.” IMMITdl *NV •<*UM I« ASSORTED LAUGHTER. IS» Kia« Thai la Gaa« **4 Braaala That Ara B*«. **• Is laughter a good thing—the laugh ter which is directed to sometblag wlildi falls to rvmiply with a social ra Hulretoent." which la compelled by the Sight of liu-ongruity or by sudden sur prise? All laughter, at all events, Is not good. The giggle and tbe titter are laughter ileliaaed. People who trifle with laughter, wrote Carlyle, “only sniff and titter and sniggle from tbe throat outward, or at best produce some whittling, husky cacbinuation, as If they were laughing through wool.” But though the snigger Is detestable, you can still have too much of hearty laughter, of the roar of Teufelsdroeckh. It Is only the unrestrained or the lrre- s|Mjusible niHu who laughs tempestu ously often; -and. Indeed, as • man grows older and gets a wider view of the world he laughs, no doubt, leas loudly. Professor Sully thinks that as a nation we have loot some of tbe mirth of our forefathers. If by that be means the noisier, self abandoned mirth of 200 years ago. It hi not perhaps.to be re gretted. It Is true that hearty laughter Is often an Index to an honest soul. Carlyle was probably right when he said that “no man who has once hearti ly and wholly luugbed can tie altogeth er bad.” But there la a better laugh thun Teufelsdroeckh'a, and that la the deep found chuckle of kindliness and experience together- Perhaps w'e laugh more wisely, even If more rarely, than our forefathers.—I-ondon Spectator. . ---------- '■------- “----------- - The Stark Battle. HFFITT PAPERS " T®WNF WRAPPING... 1 C IVwRE I «- varo «TCir-ïK ANOTHER CITY EDITOR Bright *• Disc«»« and Diabete« Ar« Positively CuraM«. Uttor Eagalks, editor and proprietor ot th. Callioesia Journal, tke-Uoraiau peper ut <■’ Moatgonary Hl . Hau Fraaviaou, lalarvlawml: Q,- Will you hrlp us ooaviaco tbe people ilia Hrlgbl’a Disease and Diabetes are positively durable by roivrriug Is your recovery t A. -I've told II to a great mauy myselt, am a< we tbeiu prottied by It and were cured. Q—How lose ago was Itt A—About sis years ago. I was so 111 wit' Bright'a IMvoaae that the doctors, be lug uuabl to help me, advised uie aa a last resort tbai try some of the springs. Before golug 1 tiearv o' Ute Fulton Compound and took it sad dldu' )iave to go. I began to get belter, and kept oi wIlB II till I was finally as well M over. Q — Any symptoms of a return of Ilf A.—Noue, although I don't permit a year 1« pa« without taking some of II. M — You say you told others? A.—1 told Charles F. Wackyr of 131 Stilb St about It on learning fie had diaoetea. He took it and la entirely well. I told a well-to-do tier man Iddy attieted with Bright's Dlaease. Sb had been to Europe for treatment without re suit. She, too. took It and go« wall. I've lol/* a gryat many 1 know these Compounds to In cerlalu cures in Bright’s Disease and Diabetes Il Is sc Incredible that one has to be cured U be convinced, aad It even then dawns ou ow slowly. Sir Wilfrid I.awson, the great tem perance advocate, once met a laborer walking along the road with‘the old familiar black Ixrttle protruding from bis piK'ket. "Empty that cursed stuff away,” Medlral werka agree ths« Bright's Dines» said Sir Wilfrid vehemently, pointing sod IMuIxtee are loi-ursble, but S" per seal. *n to the liottle. “Drink something better poxiitvely recovering under the ru'tou Coin pounds. tConisiuu toriux oj. Alduey vomplsia' than that poison." end iheumslism offer but short resistance The man was so overcome that he Prlix-. fl tor -Ibe Brlghl's Dtwsso and »1 Xu f.x the Dlubelie Compouud. John J Fulton Co. took out the receptacle anil emptied the ««> MoutgooK-rv 8t., Hun Fisuciseo, sole corn liquor Into the road. pounders, frx- testa made for pst.eulr. De scrlptiv psmphlet mailed tree. Sir Wilfrid's face beamed with pleas ure, and. handing the man a shllliug, he said: "Take that, my g<xxl fellow. It will buy you something better." The man, to the intense disgust of Th* mortality amons ba bier during tha Sir Wilfrid, immediately entered a pub Ihiea teething years Is something frightful. lic house and spent the shilling in beer. The cenaua of 1X00 shows that about one la aeven auccuniba. On coming'out Sir Wilfrid accosted the every The cauae la apparent. With baby's laborer and asked why he had spent boner- l.tuienlng. tha fontanel (opening In the skuUl closing up and Its teeth rornting, all the money for beer. the«« coming at ones create a demand for "Faith, your honor, 'twas that I bone material that nearly halt tbe little thought you wanted me to drink, for siatema' are deftclent In. The result la l«evlahneu. weak nee», sweating, fever, diar the liottle of poison I was after throw- rhoea, brain troubles, convulsions, etc., that prove terribly fatal. The deaths lu lvou under in’ away was cold tay!” Save the Baby. What to Make ot the Bog. three years were 3(M,D8k, to say nothing of the vast number outside the big cities that were not reported, and this In the Unlltal States alone. When baby begins to sweat, worry or cry out in sleep don't wait, and the need la neither medicine nor narcotics. What the little sjeleni Is crying out for Is mote bone Sweetman’B Teething Food sup material. plies It. It ha® waved the lives of thousands Thev begin to improve within ot babies, Here is what physicians forty-eight hour®. think of It. 3S34 Washington St., San Francisco, June 2, 1902. Gentlemen— I am _ prest-rlbins _ , your food in the multitude of baby troubles due to im peded dentition. A large percentage or In- fantile ills and fatalities are the result of slow teething. Your food supplies what the deficient system demands, and 1 have had surprising success with H. in score» of cases ___ ______ this diet, ______ given _____ with their regular food, has not failed to check the Infantile distresses. Several of ths more serious cases would. I reel sure, have been fatal without It. It can not bo too quickly br.-ught to the attention pt. the mothers of the country: . It la an alo solute necessity. L. C. MENDEL. M D. There is an old Lancashire custom of putting a number of articles before • child and prophesying by the article which the child touches what he may become. The story goes of a Lancashire man who was at hls wits' end to decide what to do with his offspring. So he placed on a table a sword, a Bible, an apple and a txix of pills. If tbe child touched the first be was to be a soldier, the second a clergyman, the third a greengrocer and the last a doctor. It was a somewhat heterogeneous mess of professions, true enough, but It of fered tbe advantage ot a wide range of choice. After the experiment wag over he met a boon friend. “Well, Jimmy, how did It get on?" Petaluma. Cal., September 1, 1902. asked th? friend. “Did he take the Dear 81m ___ — _ I have _ just tried the teething _ sword or” - food in two and In both it was a “He took th’ lot, so I’m goln' to make ceisB. Ope wa$ a very serious case, so criti cal that it was brought to me from another him a lawyer.” city for treatment. Fatal results were feared. Baralary la Kaalaad. Burglary cannot be committed in the daytime. The English rule la that If there is light enough to see the face of the Intruder there Is no burglary. This, however, does not Include moonlight, for a housebreaker entering after night fall, however brightly the moon may be shining, is legally a burglar—that is, if it Is reasonably certain that be has entered with the Intent to commit fel ony, for while a tramp breaking into a bouse to sleep may be a housebreaker he is not in the proper sense of the word a burglar. Burglary, however, may consist In breaking out as well as breaking in, for one who hides In a bouse before nightfall to steal and aft- er stealiug break, out to get away la just aa much a burglar as he who to effect his purixise breaks in. Where “Sterllwa" Came From. Sterling signifies money from the le galized standard of coinage of Great Britain. According to one theory, the term originated as follows: It is a cor ruption of Easterling, a jierson from north Germany, on the continent of Europe, and therefore from the east in geographical relation to England. The Easterlings were ingenious artisans who came to England in the reign of Henry III. to refine the silver money, and the coin they produced was called monetn Easterlingorum. the money of the Easterlings. Her Station. A little boy nnd girl were playing at trains, says the Western Mail, and the boy was calling out all the station names he knew. The first atop was Cardiff, the second Newport, the third Swansea, and then he paused for a name. At last, with a rush, he came opt triumphantly with “Hekves-F’ “ ’Top,” cried the sister. “I t'lnk I'll det out here.” The Felthfal Retainer. ..J’JVJir d't -JAC-- V«rsji «syt "diet ni your 'retainer?’ ” "Because lie alwaya keepa everything he finds."— Portsmouth News. In order to l>e a gentleman many a man baa to forget himself,—Saturday Evening ¡'oat. Two are company until they're mad. one.- Baltimore American. All or ROM. Busy Merchant-Well. sir. what do you want? Timid Youth— Y-your daughter's hand. Busy Merchant—Can't give It to you, sir. Either take her enure or leave her. We are not doing an Installment husl ness. —Chicago News. What liarte* th* Wife-1 wonder how you can look me In the face. Husband-Oil. a man can get used to anythlug- New York Times. In three days the baby ceased worrying and commenced eating and is* nov well. Its action In this case was remarkable. | would ad vise you to put it in every drtfg store In this city. Yours, I. M. PROCTOR, M. D. p ■ . —■ Rweetman's Teething Food will carry baby safely and comfortably through the most dan gerous period of child life. It renders lanc ing of the gums unnecessary. It is the safest plan and a blessing to the baby to tiot wait for symptoms but to commence giving it the fourth or fifth month. Then ali the teeth will come healthfully, without pain, dis tress or lancing. It is an auxiliary to their 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. HAWAIIAN FISHERMEN. ll»«> as< Teeth Flax a Part - fhptwrlaa the Octopes. la The native fisherman of Hawaii, while an adept with the hook and line, does not scorn to use bls bands to cap ture his prey when occasion arises. The bonito Is the fish most generally caught with book and line, and us the b<x>k used Is of mother of pearl, made from the shell of a mollusk now quits rare/ which glistens with an lrldea- reuce similar to the shimmer from the scales of the smaller kiuds of fish ou which the bonito Ilves, no bait is need ed. The tarb of these hooka Is of bone, and two tufts of hog's bristles attached at right angles to the barbed end keep the Inner side up. so that the hook Iles flat on the surface of ths sea. When a likely fishing ground has been reached, the fisherman, stand lug up tai the canoe, casts out bls line violently, so that the hook fails with a slap* on the WHter and attracts the attention of the Hah. The line and book are then drawn rapidly toward It were a spoon, the Ixiat, aa though _ and the Imnlto, taking fhe hook to be a small fish, rises to It Immediately. It Is fortunate for the fisherman that he baa to wjvvte- tw time In bzItlLg-hia b<x>k. for tills method of casting fright ens the school, and the fish disappear within ten or fifteen minutes An lugeulous plan by which very largo h'nlF are caught la by 'plnuting a long pole on the shore in such a pool tlon as to cause It to lean decidedly to ward the water. On the top of thia a hell is arranged eo that it can swing deer of the top of the pole. A block and fall are also attached to the pole close to the top, and a long line, with baited hook at the end. Is run through the block and allowed to float out to sea. tbe land end being tied In a slip knot to the bottom of the pole. As soon aa a fish Is btsiked Its struggles cause the bell to ring, whereupon the fisher man runs to tbs pole, loosens the slip knot-aml plays tbe fish until be baa drowned it, when It Is hauled ashore. In fishing for octopus the native dives to tbe bottom and with a stick pokes around In tbe small holes In which tbe octopus live«. When he touches one, It 'Seizes fhe stick afid allows him to drAWIt out of the bole. When be reaches the surface, tbe native grabs It with bls hands and bites Into tbe bead, thus killing the animal.
